The Prince of Wales’ annual environmental award – The Earthshot Prize – has announced its fifth awards ceremony will be heading to Rio de Janeiro.
The awards ceremony in Brazil will see another five winners chosen, who will be awarded £1 million to help ‘scale their environmental solutions’ to tackle the climate emergency.
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Speaking about the new country becoming a host for the Earthshot Prize, Prince William said: ‘2025 marks the midway point of the Earthshot decade and each year we’ve witnessed the remarkable power of human ingenuity in addressing our planet’s most pressing challenges.
As we bring The Earthshot Prize to Brazil, a nation rich in biodiversity and environmental innovation, we are seeing fresh momentum for new ideas to create healthier and safer ways to live our lives. It is an honour to profile the people making our world a better place for us and for our children.’
The Earthshot Prize: Repairing Our Planet. Prince William, Duke of Cambridge (BBC Studios/James Watkins)
Brazil was chosen for a number of reasons: it is the world’s most biologically diverse country, ‘Home to vast cities, an expansive coastline, and more than half of the Amazon Rainforest, innovators and indigenous communities are at the forefront of developing solutions’ that tackle climate change.
Earthshot was launched in 2019 and is ‘an ambitious set of challenges to inspire a decade of action to repair the planet’ and named following the moon landings, which was a decade-long plan called Moonshot.
The five ‘Earthshots’ are based around five goals to repair our planet: Protect and Restore Nature, Clean our Air, Revive our Oceans, Build a Waste-free World and Fix our Climate.
