# Environmental Earthshot Prize launches to find solutions to planet’s greatest issues

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2020/01/06/environmental-earthshot-prize-launches-to-find-solutions-to-planets-greatest-issues/
- Published: 2020-01-06T08:00:28+00:00
- Author: Melanie May

**Prince William has unveiled the Earthshot Prize: a decade-long initiative that
aims to inspire ten years of global action to solve the planet’s biggest issues.**

The [Earthshot Prize](https://earthshotprize.org/) will issue a set of challenges
rooted in science that will aim to generate new ways of thinking, as well as new
technologies, systems, policies and solutions.
 

 It will launch officially later this year with a number of Earthshot challenges
unveiled in special events around the globe. These will seek answers to issues in
areas including: climate and energy, nature and biodiversity, oceans, air pollution
and fresh water.

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Earthshot will award a prize to five winners a year over 10 years, through which,
alongside the winners’ work, it hopes to be able to provide at least 50 solutions
to the world’s greatest problems by 2030. An annual awards ceremony will take place
in different cities across the world each year between 2021 and 2030.

The prizes will reward progress across all sectors of industry and society, and 
could be awarded to anyone making a substantial development or contribution to solving
the planet’s environmental challenges. 

Further details have yet to be released but the Earthshot Prize is asking those 
looking at the biggest issues facing the planet to register their interest on the
site.
 

> Our journey is only just beginning. 
> We will have announcements on new details
> throughout 2020. If you want to be the first to hear about updates on The Earthshot
> Prize, make sure to sign up at [https://t.co/Jd3VYa1zdL](https://t.co/Jd3VYa1zdL)
> [pic.twitter.com/RKvIvzgS7p](https://t.co/RKvIvzgS7p)
> — The Earthshot Prize (@EarthshotPrize) [January 2, 2020](https://twitter.com/EarthshotPrize/status/1212719047302959105?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

Earthshot – the book

_**[EARTHSHOT: how to save our planet](https://fundraising.co.uk/2020/01/06/environmental-earthshot-prize-launches-to-find-solutions-to-planets-greatest-issues/ how to save our planet)**
_explains how the goals of the Earthshot Prize challenges can tackle the environmental
crisis, from rainforests to coral reefs, via wilderness, cities and in our own homes.

[⌊Earthshot book promo featuring quote from Prince William.⌉⌊Earthshot book promo
featuring quote from Prince William.⌉[

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