The search for The Earthshot Prize 2025 Winners has begun!
The Commonwealth Blue Charter programme is proud to be an Official Nominator for the prestigious The Earthshot Prize, the global environmental awards launched by HRH Prince William in 2020. The prize aims to find innovative solutions that will help repair our planet in this decade.
As an Official Nominator, we are part of a global community invited to submit nominations. There are five categories or ‘Earthshots’ which, if achieved by 2030, will improve life for us all, including for generations to come. The five categories are:
- Protect and Restore Nature
- Clean our Air
- Revive our Oceans
- Build a Waste-Free World
- Fix our Climate
The Blue Charter team will nominate individuals, communities, businesses and organisations whose solutions make the most progress towards achieving Earthshot 3: Revive our Oceans.
Submit a nomination for The Earthshot Prize 2025
If you have an ocean-related solution that is inspiring, inclusive and impactful, please complete this form to be considered for nomination by the Commonwealth Blue Charter.
Deadline
The deadline for nominations by the Commonwealth Secretariat for The Earthshot Prize 2025 is 25 November 2024.
Please see below details of prizes, selection criteria and next steps.
Prizes
There will be three finalists and one winner for each Earthshot. Each of the five winners will be awarded £1 million, and all 15 finalists will enter The Earthshot Fellowship Programme for a year of dedicated support.
Finalists and winners are given an incredible platform to amplify their work, as well as tailored support from The Earthshot Prize and our network of NGOs, businesses, governments, funders and expert mentors.
What we are looking for
Focus is on nominees with potential for global impact, that represent diversity and are mature enough to rapidly scale up, making a vital difference over the next three to five years.
Nominations should be:
- beyond the idea stage
- have tested their solution in-field or with target audiences, and
- are at a ‘tipping point’ for scaling up their impact within the next five years.
Selection criteria
Nominations will be selected against 15 priority areas of interest, five cross-cutting enabling approaches, and four key filters that could significantly accelerate impact.
15 Priority areas
The fifteen priority areas include the potential to see damaging and unsustainable practices rapidly replaced with high impact solutions. Whilst focus of The Earthshot Prize is on these areas, any entry outside this remit will also be accepted if it has the potential for global impact in the next few years.
Protect and restore nature
- Protecting areas of high biodiversity such as forests, wetland, peatlands and wildlife corridors
- Restoring damaged ecosystems
- Feeding people while protecting nature
Clean our air
- Engaging citizens in data collection and clean air policies
- Preventing the burning of fields, forests and waste
- Transitioning to clean transportation for all
Revive our oceans
- Protecting and restoring coastal ecosystems
- Replenishing fish populations
- Reducing demand for fishmeal
Build a waste-free world
- Reducing farm-to-fork food loss
- Phasing out single-use and non-recycled plastics
- High-value circularity in fashion and electronics
Fix our climate
- Creating an equitable clean energy future
- Addressing non-CO2 greenhouse gas emissions
- Decarbonising hard-to-abate sectors
Enablers
Enabling approaches inspire our nominators and nominees when searching for game-changing innovations. These include:
- Solutions that use technology, AI or data to enable transformative change
- Solutions that create or leverage nature and carbon markets, novel financial mechanisms and essential legal solutions
- Solutions led and informed by indigenous and local communities
- Solutions that promote shared economic opportunity
- Solutions that enable policy change
Filters
When it comes to selecting the 15 finalists from the thousands of nominations received each year by The Earthshot Prize, a thorough process is in place to identify the best submissions, using the following filters:
- Potential for global impact
Finalists will have the potential to be relevant on a global level by 2030. They must clearly articulate their impact to date, and their potential to make a difference in the future based on one or more of our shortlisted environmental and social metrics.
- Diversity of solution types
Solutions can come from any country or sector in the world. Nominees could be a not-for-profit or for-profit organisation, a local or national government, a partnership, or a team. Emphasis is placed on geographic representation, gender, and indigenous representation.
- Stage of solutions
Finalists will have solutions that can be scaled up or replicated quickly through financial, communication or organisational support. Solutions will be well developed beyond the idea stage, have made significant progress with their solution, and need support to be scaled beyond financial support alone.
- Organisational foundations
The Earthshot Prize seeks finalists that are mature enough to maximise the support they receive. This will be evaluated based on the foundations they already have in place, accounting for the quality of the leadership team, their commitment to inclusion and their organisational maturity.
Submit a nomination for The Earthshot Prize 2025
If you have an ocean-related solution that is inspiring, inclusive and impactful, please complete this form to be considered for nomination by the Commonwealth Blue Charter.
Next steps
After you have submitted your information, the Blue Charter team will review your completed form, conduct rigorous due diligence and will notify you if selected for nomination. Please note that completion of this survey does not guarantee nomination.
Should you be selected, you will receive a link from The Earthshot Prize to provide further details about your solution.
For more information, please contact us at the Commonwealth Secretariat: [email protected] with Earthshot Prize 2025 query in the subject line.
Media contact
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Suné Kitshoff Senior Communications Officer, Communications Division, Commonwealth Secretariat
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