Lancaster University’s award-winning Centre for Global Eco-Innovation is proud to be invited back as an official ‘nominator’ for The Earthshot Prize 2025.

Launched in 2020, The Earthshot Prize is designed to provide incentive for change and help to repair our planet over a 10-year period. It focuses on specific issues facing the planet, that are urgent with the hope that meaningful solutions may be found. It is acknowledged as both a highly ambitious and prestigious opportunity. It is led by Prince William and Sir David Attenborough.

This is the fifth year running the Centre has been chosen as an official nominator and this is thanks to its ability to identify impactful solutions from across all sectors. This approach is important to The Earthshot Prize which may require interdisciplinary innovation to make impact. The Earthshot Prize awards five winners £1 million to support their work.

Official nominators inform the initial stage of the process by nominating applications that have the strength to make impact and progress towards The Earthshot Prize objectives. Applications are now open to individuals, organisations and teams for The Earthshot Prize 2025.

Taking inspiration from President John F. Kennedy’s Moonshot which united millions of people around an organising goal to put people on the moon and catalysed the development of new technology in the 1960s, The Earthshot Prize is centred around five ‘Earthshots’. These are simple but ambitious goals for our planet which, if achieved by 2030, will improve life for us all, for generations to come.

The prize will reward achievement and action in the following five areas:

• Protect and restore nature
• Clean our air
• Revive our oceans
• Build a waste-free world
• Fix our climate

These opportunities are all firmly rooted in science, with the aim of generating solutions, as well as new technologies, systems and policies, alongside creative thinking. The Earthshot Prize recognises that all of these environmental challenges are closely linked. They are all in urgent need but only by working with them together can meaningful solutions be found.

The Centre for Global Eco-Innovation is a Lancaster University Research Centre which focuses on bringing together the cross-disciplinary expertise and cross-sector collaborations needed to create and deliver products, services and practices that help both people and our environment prosper.

Professor Kirk Semple, Interim Director of the Centre for Global Eco-Innovation, said: “We are delighted to have the opportunity to be a nominator for the fifth year running. As a Centre supporting sustainable innovation, the action areas highlighted by this prize are some of the most important, urgent, and ambitious challenges of our times. We are looking forward to receiving nominations from individuals, teams or collaborations from across the world who have a mature Earthshot solution that is ready to scale up.”

The 5-stage prize process to select a winner for each Earthshot is as follows:

1. Nominations: the Centre for Global Eco-Innovation and other nominators are seeking out solutions from across the globe that will help us reach our Earthshots
2. Screening: Nominations will be screened as part of an independent assessment process run by Deloitte, our implementation partner.
3. Shortlist: A distinguished panel of experts will support the judging process, making recommendations to The Earthshot Prize Council.
4. Selection: Prince William and The Earthshot Prize Council select the five winners.
5. Awards: The winners of The Earthshot Prize will be announced at an awards ceremony, which will take place in different cities across the world each year between 2021 and 2030.

Making a nomination

Nominations can only be made through an appointed nominator, and the Centre for Global Eco-Innovation is calling for applications to be submitted by midnight on Sunday 1^st December, 2024.

Learn more at: www.earthshotprize.org

More information on Lancaster University’s Centre For Global Eco-Innovation can be found at https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/global-eco-innovation/