Earthshot winners announced

Earthshot winners

via  Postive News

Five eco innovators have been awarded £1m each to develop their ideas, which offer scalable solutions to deforestation, pollution and other environmental challenges.

The  Earthshot Prize ,  is a new annual award that celebrates innovators with scaleable solutions to environmental problems.   

The winners:

Costa Rica: winner, protect and restore nature category. Costa Rica has reversed decades of deforestation by paying people to protect ecosystems 

Takachar: winner, clean our air category. New Delhi-based Takachar has developed a technology that could end the practice of burning agricultural waste, which causes severe air pollution in India.

Coral Vita: winner, revive our oceans category. Coral Vita is a Bahamas-based conservation organisation that cultivates coral on land and replants it in the ocean. 

Milan: winner, waste-free world category. An initiative that has dramatically cut food waste while tackling hunger saw Milan win the waste-free world category.  Launched in 2019, with the aim of halving waste by 2030, Milan’s Food Waste Hubs programme recovers food from supermarkets and restaurants.

AEM Electrolyser: winner, fix our climate category. The AEM Electrolyser turns renewable electricity from wind and solar farms into emission-free hydrogen, which can be used to power factories and other high-energy buildings.