The Earthshot Prize announced its five winners for 2024 at an award ceremony hosted and livestreamed from Cape Town, South Africa, on Nov. 6. The prize was dubbed “Planet Earth’s biggest celebration of climate creativity” at the start of the event. Launched by Prince William of the U.K. in 2020, the Earthshot Prize is awarded annually to projects that work toward five kinds of solutions for environmental problems: Protect and Restore Nature; Clean Our Air; Revive Our Oceans; Build a Waste-free World; and Fix Our Climate. Each winner, selected from 15 finalists and 2,500 nominees, will receive 1 million pounds ($1.3 million) to “accelerate and scale their game-changing environmental solutions.” “We want to make this the decade when we transform the world for good, one solution at a time from the ground up,” William said at the award ceremony. “That’s why we are here, to champion the dreamers, the thinkers, the innovators from every walk of life who share an ambition to build a better, more sustainable world. We’ll do everything we can to support them and help speed their solution to scale.” The Green Africa Youth Organization (GAYO) from Ghana was the winner in the “Clean Our Air” category. The group works to reduce waste that reaches landfills, which in turn can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and particle pollution that results from the burning of landfill waste. The High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People, winner in the “Revive Our Oceans” category, is a global organization of 119 countries. It…This article was originally published on Mongabay
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