Earthshot Prize Africa 2023 (£1 Million Prize)

Deadline: January 27, 2023

The Earthshot Prize, a global environmental prize to discover, accelerate, and scale ground-breaking solutions to repair and regenerate the planet, has begun its 2023 search for breakthrough solutions to solve the globe’s biggest environmental challenges.

MultiChoice, the official African broadcast partner and member of The Earthshot Prize Global Alliance, is issuing a call for entries from African organizations, businesses, governments, and individuals who are doing scalable and impactful work in this capacity.

Categories

Potential nominees can enter into any of the five categories of the Earthshot Prize, including:

Protect and Restore Nature
Clean our Air
Revive our Oceans
Build a Waste-Free World
Fix our Climate

Prize

The Prize is awarded annually to five winners, each receiving a US$1.2 million/R20 million (£1 million) prize grant to scale their projects.

Eligibility

Open to innovators in Africa
You must have a solution or solutions that will repair our planet this decade.
The Earthshot Prize will consider solutions that make tangible progress towards one of the five Earthshots. They should be beyond the idea stage, have tested their solution in-field or with target audiences, and be at a ‘tipping point’ for scaling their impact within the next five years.