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One prize of 拢1 million will be awarded in each of the five Earthshots. The funding is to be used to scale the impact of the work with the ambition that solutions will lead to mass adoption, replication, and scaling. Winners and finalists will receive personalized support from the Earthshot Prize network of NGOs, businesses, governments, and expert mentors.

The prize focuses on five 鈥淓arthshots鈥� or themes, that address areas in which the planet is experiencing environmental devastation on a catastrophe scale:

1. Protect and Restore Nature
   • Protecting areas of high biodiversity such as forests, wetland, peatlands and wildlife corridors
   • Restoring damaged ecosystems
   • Feeding people while protecting nature
2. Clean Our Air
   • Engaging citizens in data collection and clean air policies
   • Preventing the burning of fields, forests, and waste
   • Transitioning to clean transportation for all
3. Revive Our Oceans
   • Protecting and restoring coastal ecosystems
   • Replenishing fish populations
   • Reducing demand for fishmeal
4. Build a Waste-free World
   • Reducing food loss from farm-to-fork
   • Phasing out single-use and non-recycled plastics
   • High-value circularity in fashion and electronics
5. Fix Our Climate
   • Creating an equitable clean energy future
   • Addressing non-C0₂ greenhouse gas emissions
   • Decarbonizing hard-to-abate sectors

The 鈥渃ross-cutting enablers鈥� are identified approaches and tools that can accelerate the environmental improvements we seek without being specific to any single Earthshot. When adopted by innovators and their supporters, they could rapidly accelerate their growth and impact.

1. Solutions that use technology, AI or data to enable transformative change
2. Solutions that create or leverage nature and carbon markets, novel financial mechanisms and essential legal solutions
3. Solutions led and informed by indigenous peoples and local communities
4. Solutions that promote shared economic opportunities
5. Solutions that enable policy change

We are looking for inspiring, impactful and inclusive solutions to submit to the 2025 Earthshot Prize.

Competitive solutions will have the following characteristics:

1. Potential for Global Impact

Solutions must clearly articulate their impact to date, and their potential to make a difference in the future based on one or more of the following environmental metrics:

• Hectares of land, ocean or freshwater systems protected or restored.
• Biodiversity increases on land, freshwater systems or in oceans.
• Reduction in concentrations of particulate matter (PM2.5/ PM10).
• Tonnes of waste saved, reduced, recycled or avoided.
• Tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions saved, captured or avoided.
• Make a positive social impact, such as improving lives or creating green jobs, alongside the essential environmental impact.

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2. Diversity of Solution Types

Nominees may be:

• An organisation (not-for-profit or for-profit)
• Government institution, local or national (including a country or city)
• A partnership of more than one organization
• A team or small group of individuals

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3. Stage of Solution

Solutions should have the capability to have a major impact within a decade if they receive the appropriate technical, financial, communications or organisational support. The Solution鈥檚 stage of development should fit the following criteria:

• They are well-developed beyond the idea stage.
• They require additional support to be scaled or replicated at scale. Solutions that have already achieved a level of maturity where they only need access to funding are less of a focus.
• They have made significant progress in the past year with clear organisational or solution-based breakthroughs.

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4. Organizational Foundations

Solutions should have the following criteria:

• Quality of leadership: A dedicated team/founder committed to scaling or replicating the solution who bring knowledge of the problem it addresses.
• Inclusive leadership: A team that demonstrates inclusivity and represent their community, including female, indigenous and local community-led solutions.
• Organisational stability: The nominee ought to have solid governance and financial arrangements.
• Scale model: A nominee with a credible model by which their solution could be replicated or scaled to have transformative impact.