£1M Inaugural 'Earthshot' Prize Recognizes Creative Solutions to Climate Problems
"Five innovators on Sunday won 1 million pounds each at the inaugural awards ceremony for Prince Williams's Earthshot Prize," reports the Washington Post, calling the award "a kind of Oscars for green projects that the British royal hopes will highlight creative solutions to the world's most pressing environmental challenges." William founded the environmental prize — self-styled as the "most prestigious global environment prize in history" — after becoming disappointed with world leaders' lackluster efforts to combat climate change, he has said in his book on the initiative... The winners included a green hydrogen technology that can be used as a carbon-free alternative to fossil fuels; an India-based outfit that makes low-cost smokeless machines that convert agricultural waste into fuels and fertilizers; and a team from the Bahamas that grows coral farms on land that can be replanted in oceans. The Republic of Costa Rica also won for reversing deforestation by paying its citizens to protect its forests, and the city of Milan won for its system of food hubs that collect and redistribute surplus supplies to the city's needy. The winners were selected from a pool of more than 750 candidates chosen by a panel of more than 200 experts... Every year, for the next decade, winners of the Earthshot award will be selected in five categories: protect and restore nature, clean our air, revive our oceans, build a waste-free world and fix our climate. The Post reports that the ceremony included a performance by the band Coldplay which was said to be powered "by 60 people manically pedaling on bicycles next to the stage." Coldplay later reportedly plans to use batteries from BMW's electric cars to help power its 2022 world tour, "storing energy from a variety of sources, like solar panels, power bikes inside the venue itself, a kinetic floor, and recycled cooking oil from local restaurants."
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