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Earthshot Prize: Prince William announces five winners

 

By Nadine Yousif & Emily McGarvey,

BBC News,

Edited by - Vinuri Randhula Silva,


Childhood friends in Oman who figured out how to turn carbon dioxide into rock are among five winners chosen for the Prince of Wales's prestigious Earthshot Prize.

The annual awards were created by Prince William to fund projects that aim to save the planet.

Each winner will receive £1m ($1.2m) to develop their innovation.

Prince William announced the winners on Friday at an awards ceremony in Boston in the US.

"I believe that the Earthshot solutions you have seen this evening prove we can overcome our planet's greatest challenges," Prince William said during the ceremony.

"By supporting and scaling them we can change our future," he said.

The winning projects are based in Kenya, India, Australia, the UK and Oman.

Talal Hasan, CEO of project 44.01 in OmanEARTHSHOT PRIZE 2022
Talal Hasan is the founder of 44.01, a project that promises to turn carbon dioxide into rock
Earthshot Prize winner Charlot Magayi with one of her Mukuru Clean StovesRONALD GRANT
Charlot Magayi is one of the five Earthshot Prize winners with her stoves fired by cleaner fuels

This is the second set of Earthshot Prizes awarded, after the first ever awards last year. The prize's name refers to the "Moonshot" ambition of 1960s America by then-President John F Kennedy, who pledged to get a man on the Moon within a decade.

Five Earthshot Prizes of £1m ($1.2m) are being awarded each year until 2030 in support of environmental innovation projects for the future. Nominations for the 2023 prize open up on 5 December.

This year's winners were chosen from a list of 15 finalists by a panel that includes Prince William, Sir David Attenborough, actress Cate Blanchett, footballer Dani Alves, Fijian activist Ernest Gibson and singer Shakira.

William and Catherine handed out awards to the five winners during a star-studded ceremony in Boston on Friday - with celebrities there including Billie Eilish, Annie Lennox, Ellie Goulding, Chloe x Halle and David Beckham.

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Talal Hasan, founder of 44.01 said winning the Earthshot Prize was "a proud moment" for his team.

"We started 44.01 two years ago because we saw the very real impact of climate change here in Oman," he said.

"Winning the Earthshot Prize will help us scale our solution around the world, and ultimately eliminate billions of tonnes of CO2. Climate change is the greatest challenge we have ever faced but being part of this amazing group of finalists give us hope."

Charlot Magayi, the CEO of Mukuru Clean Stoves, said 200,000 households in Kenya have had access to her product since she launched the business in 2017.

"The Earthshot Prize is going to help us reach one million households," she added.

David Beckham attends the second annual Earthshot Prize Awards at the MGM Music Hall at Fenway, in Boston, Massachusetts, U.SREUTERS
British former footballer David Beckham was among the guests at the awards
Chloe x Halle attend the The Earthshot Prize 2022 at MGM Music Hall at Fenway on December 02, 2022 in Boston, MassachusettsGETTY IMAGES
RnB duo Chloe x Halle were also spotted on the green carpet

Pierre Paslier, co-founder of the London start-up Notpla, said when the project started eight years ago in a student kitchen, "we would have never imagined we would be here today".

"No one wants to live in a world full of plastic waste but it's not too late to act," he said.

The ceremony is due to be broadcast at 17:30 GMT on Sunday on the BBC in the UK, and on Monday in the US.

People attend the Earthshot Prize Awards at the MGM Music Hall at Fenway, in Boston, MassachusettsREUTERS
The awards were held at the MGM Music Hall in Boston, Massachusetts

Earlier on Friday, Prince William met US President Joe Biden as part of the royal couple's three-day trip to the US. It is Prince William and Catherine's first big international appearance since the death of the Queen.

However, the high-profile trip has been overshadowed by a racism row involving William's godmother, Lady Susan Hussey, a key member of the Royal Household, resigned after repeatedly asking a black British charity boss where she was "really" from.

Prince William's spokesperson has said "racism has no place in our society".

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