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- This was won by The Republic of Costa Rica. The country, which had lost a lot of their trees through deforestation, but have now doubled the size of their forests. Its programme pays the people of Costa Rica to look after their environment through planting trees and restoring ecosystems.
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Oct 18, 2021 · The inaugural winners were selected from five different categories, and were chosen from a shortlist of 15 by judges including broadcaster Sir David Attenborough, actress Cate Blanchett and...
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London — Some of the world's biggest celebrities joined Britain's Prince William in London on Sunday night for first-ever "Earthshot Prize" awards ceremony.
The award, created by Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, was inspired by John F. Kennedy's "Moonshot" pledge to get Americans on the moon. The Earthshot is also designed to inspire innovation — but not to reach the heavens. The Earthshot is a bid to keep the planet we currently inhabit liveable for future generations.
The prizes bring recognition and a significant chunk of funding for people working on innovative solutions to major environmental crises facing the Earth, and as CBS News correspondent Charlie D'Agata reports, the stars came out to help save the planet.
•Prince William: Focus on saving Earth, not "space tourism"
A pedal-powered performance by Coldplay kicked off the proceedings, with 60 cyclists cranking away to provide all the electricity required.
But the message from the inaugural Earthshot Prize ceremony was far from celebratory: The royal host warned everyone watching that we're all living in "the most consequential time in human history."
•The nation of Costa Rica, which won in the "Protect and Restore Nature" category for a policy that pays local citizens to help plant trees and preserve the country's rainforest.
•India's Vidyut Mohan, who won the "Clean our Air" prize for his Takachar social enterprise that is helping to convert harmful pollutants produced by his country's agriculture sector into sellable bio-fuels and fertilizers.
•The Coral Vita initiative in the Bahamas, which won the "Revive our Oceans" prize for developing a scalable system to grow new, hearty corals on land that can be transplanted in small clusters into the oceans to rejuvenate reefs killed off by warmer waters.
•Milan, Italy, won the "Build a Waste-Free World" prize for an initiative that has seen the city make use of huge amounts of food, which would otherwise have been discarded by grocery stores and other big entities, to feed those in need.
•The international Enapter project, which took the "Fix our Climate" prize for its AEM Electrolyser — a far more efficient way to create emission-free hydrogen gas from renewable electricity.
"What we have achieved in this small country in Central America can be done anywhere," Costa Rican President Carlos Alvarado Quesada said in remarks beamed into the prize ceremony on Sunday.
Oct 18, 2021 · The winners of the first ever Earthshot Prizes were announced in a ceremony in London on Sunday night. Five winners were allocated £1 million each for their initiatives to help the environment....
Dec 8, 2022 · Who are the winners of the royal couple’s environmental prize this year? And who has won the award, which comes with a £1 million (about $1.2 million USD) reward, in past years? Keep reading for a look into this year’s ceremony, the 2022 finalists and winners, and last year's winners.
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The five winners of The Earthshot Prize were announced by a line-up of presenters including The Duchess of Cambridge, Emma Thompson, Emma Watson, David Oyelowo and Mo Salah.
Oct 16, 2021 · London CNN — The inaugural winners of Prince William ’s Earthshot Prize include the country of Costa Rica, an Indian organization that creates fuel from agricultural waste and a coral...
Oct 17, 2021 · LONDON — Five innovators on Sunday won 1 million pounds each at the inaugural awards ceremony for Prince William's Earthshot Prize, a kind of Oscars for green projects that the British...
