African Startups can now Apply for the $1.2m Earthshot Prize
The Earthshot Reward, a global environmental prize to find, accelerate, and scale ground-breaking ideas to repair and renew the earth, has welcomed African startups to submit applications.
Each year, the Earthshot Prize conducts a global search for game-changing solutions. To see the process through to completion, a global network of more than 350 nominating people and organizations from 66 countries is tasked with doing so.
Any of the five categories of the Earthshot Prize—Protect and Restore Nature, Clean our Air, Revive our Oceans, Build a Waste-Free World, and Fix our Climate—can be entered by African organizations, businesses, governments, and individuals who are carrying out scalable and significant work in this capacity.
Each year, the prize is given to five winners, who each receive a prize grant of US$1.2 million to expand their enterprises.
Imtiaz Patel, chairman of MultiChoice Group, the official African broadcast partner and member of the Earthshot Prize Global Alliance, said, “By entering this prestigious prize, African innovators will be afforded the platform to pitch their solutions, inspire other corporates to join the fight against climate change, and motivate governments to prioritize climate change as part of their national agendas.”
“We urge you to send in your nomination and be part of the solution if you have a meaningful intervention whose solution makes significant progress towards attaining any of the five Earthshots.”
Three African organizations were chosen as finalists when the Earthshot Prize was first announced in 2021: Sanergy from Kenya, Reeddi Capsules from Nigeria, and Pole Pole Foundation from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In the meantime, Mukuru Clean Stoves, a Kenya-based firm that offers women in Kenya cleaner-burning stoves to minimize dangerous indoor pollution and provide a safer method to cook, won the coveted environmental award in December 2022.
Before January 27, those who are interested should apply here.
