Following a record-breaking yr for nominations, and a historic first awards ceremony on the African continent, The Earthshot Prize (TEP) is formally open for entries for its 2025 cohort and MultiChoice is proud to as soon as once more be an official Africa nominator for TEP.
TEP seeks modern options throughout 5 important Earthshots: Defend and Restore Nature; Clear Our Air; Revive Our Oceans; Construct a Waste-Free World; and Repair Our Local weather.
This yr’s cycle noticed an unprecedented surge in nominations, with over 2,000 entries acquired from 139 nations, demonstrating a rising international momentum for environmental innovation.
The star-studded awards ceremony, held in Cape City, South Africa was broadcast reside to hundreds of thousands of individuals throughout the continent by MultiChoice, the official African broadcast accomplice of TEP. The ceremony celebrated a number of African-led initiatives, together with:
• Inexperienced Africa Youth Organisation (GAYO) (Ghana):Winner of the Clear Our Air Earthshot, GAYO is tackling air air pollution with its modern “Zero Waste Mannequin”.
• Preserve IT Cool (Kenya): Winner of the Construct a Waste-Free World Earthshot, Preserve IT Cool is revolutionising meals preservation for small-scale farmers and fishers with its sustainable refrigeration programs.
These winners, together with all different TEP recipients, exemplify the ability of native options to handle international challenges and contribute to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Growth. Every winner receives £1 million in prize cash to scale their impactful options.
TEP invitations people, communities, companies, and organisations throughout Africa and past to submit their groundbreaking concepts and applied sciences that may speed up the transition to a sustainable future. The Prize seeks options which can be:
• Impactful: Demonstrating tangible constructive results on the setting.
• Inspiring: Motivating others to act and be a part of the worldwide motion for change.
• Inclusive: Benefitting communities and selling equitable entry to sources.
TEP is a beacon of hope within the face of the local weather disaster,trying to find the following era of environmental pioneers who’re creating modern options to restore the planet. Anybody with a daring thought is inspired to apply here.
On the coronary heart of TEP’s mission is a willpower to deliver environmental options to scale as quick as potential, to achieve thegoal of defending and restoring the planet by 2030.
The deadline for entries is 4 December 2024.
For extra info, please go to: https://www.multichoice.com/nominations-25.php
For media queries contact: Moipone Tsotetsi – Moipone.Tsotetsi@multichoice.co.za
For entry queries e-mail: Info@multichoiceafrica.com
About The Earthshot Prize:
Based by Prince William and The Royal Basis in 2020, The Earthshot Prize is a worldwide environmental prize designed to find, speed up, and scale groundbreaking options to restore and regenerate the planet. Impressed by President John F. Kennedy’s Moonshot, the Prize goals to catalyse an Earthshot problem to encourage and scale modern options that may assist put the world on a trajectory in direction of a steady local weather the place communities, oceans, and biodiversity thrive in concord by 2030.
