By Multichoice
Published Janary 13, 2023
Climate change activists and innovators across Africa are invited to submit nominations for the prestigious Earthshot Prize with a chance of winning US$1.2 million (£1 million) prize.
The Earthshot Prize is a global environmental prize that discovers, accelerates, and scales ground-breaking solutions to repair and regenerate the planet.
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MultiChoice, the official African broadcast partner and member of The Earthshot Prize Global Alliance, invites entries from African organizations, businesses, governments, and individuals who are doing scalable and impactful work in this capacity. Potential nominees can enter into any of the five categories of the Earthshot Prize–Protect and Restore Nature, Clean our Air, Revive our Oceans, Build a Waste-Free World and Fix our Climate. The Prize is awarded annually to five winners, each receiving a US$1.2 million (£1 million) prize grant to scale their projects.
Each year, The Earthshot Prize launches a global search for breakthrough solutions, with a worldwide network of more than 350 nominating individuals and organizations from 66 countries tasked with ushering the process through.
The deadline for submissions is January 27, 2023.
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“By entering this prestigious prize, African innovators will be afforded the platform to pitch their solutions, inspire other corporates to join the fight against climate change and motivate governments to prioritize climate change as part of their national agendas,’’ said Imtiaz Patel, Chairman, MultiChoice Group. “If you have a worthy intervention whose solution makes significant progress towards achieving any of the five Earthshots, we urge you to send in your nomination and be part of the solution.’’
When The Earthshot Prize was first launched in 2021, three African organizations–Sanergy (from Kenya), Reeddi Capsules (from Nigeria) and Pole Pole Foundation (from the Democratic Republic of Congo)–were selected as finalists.
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The five Earthshot Prize Winners for 2022 are:
- Protect and Restore Nature: Kheyti, India: A pioneering solution for local smallholder farmers to reduce costs, increase yields and protect livelihoods in a country on the frontlines of climate change
- Clean our Air: Mukuru Clean Stoves, Kenya: A start-up providing cleaner-burning stoves to women in Kenya to reduce unhealthy indoor pollution and provide a safer way to cook
- Revive our Oceans: Indigenous Women of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia: An inspiring women-led programme that combines 60,000 years of indigenous knowledge with digital technologies to protect land and sea
- Build a Waste-free World: Notpla, United Kingdom: A circular solution creating an alternative to plastic packaging from seaweed
- Fix our Climate: 44.01, Oman: Childhood friends who have developed an innovative technique to turn CO2 into rock, and permanently store it underground.
More information availabe via Elizabeth(dot)fourie(at)Multichoice(dot)co(dot)za and Taylor(dot)patterson(at)earthshotprize(dot)org.