The Earthshot Prize 2023 - Singapore

The Earthshot Prize – an ambitious global initiative to protect and restore our planet – took place in Singapore from 6 to 9 November. Founded by Prince William, The Earthshot Prize is a prestigious environmental prize which aims to discover, celebrate, accelerate, and scale solutions that can help put the world firmly on a trajectory towards a stable climate, where communities, oceans and biodiversity thrive in harmony by 2030.  

The five ‘Earthshots’ represent simple and ambitious goals to repair our planet: Protect and Restore Nature, Clean our Air, Revive our Oceans, Build a Waste-free World and Fix our Climate. 

This third annual event featured an Awards Ceremony where the five Winners were awarded a catalytic £1 million to help scale their environmental solutions.

 Conservation International has been a Global Alliance Partner of The Earthshot Prize since its launch in 2020.  Our ongoing role is to nominate and to help guide the selection of winners. Our CEO, Dr M. Sanjayan, is on the Earthshot Prize Board of Trustees, where he directly informs the prize’s focus and impact.

 Earthshot Week: Conservation International Elevates Indigenous and Youth Voices

For the first time this year the awards ceremony was accompanied by a series of events as part of Earthshot Week. Hosted in partnership with Conservation International, Temasek Trust, Temasek, and GenZero, Earthshot Week brought together global leaders, major businesses and corporations, investors, celebrities, and the public to contribute and collaborate toward the Earthshot mission.

Conservation International hosted Maori leaders from our Hinemoana Halo initiative, several Indigenous youths from Samoa, Fiji and West Papua, and the recently crowned 10 for Zero youth winners at various events.

During Earthshot week, Conservation International Singapore launched Studio Zero, our new program designed to propel content creators in video creation, storytelling and community engagement. The six-month offers live content studios, expert mentorship and collaborative experiences to equip youth with the skills to champion environmental causes through creative storytelling.

 At Earthshot+, an event aimed at sparking thought-provoking conversations to amplify the impact of The Earthshot Prize, our Māori partners from Hinemoana Halo engaged in a candid discussion with Christiana Figueres on stage. They shared the importance of Indigenous voices addressing climate change and how this ancient wisdom can enrich nature-based solutions to help humanity adapt and mitigate climate change.

Conservation International’s hosting of our Indigenous partners at Earthshot was a meaningful and impactful way to connect these representatives to global conversation innovators and investors and profile how Indigenous knowledge and peoples are key to climate action.