2023 SELECTION PRIORITIES - EARTHSHOTS, CRITERIA AND FOCUS AREAS - The Earthshot Prize
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2023 SELECTION PRIORITIES EARTHSHOTS, CRITERIA AND FOCUS AREAS
THE FIVE EARTHSHOTS 2
15 FINALISTS, 5 WINNERS
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PROTECT CLEAN OUR REVIVE OUR BUILD A FIX OUR
AND RESTORE AIR OCEANS WASTE-FREE CLIMATE
NATURE WORLD
OUR SELECTION PRIORITIES FOR 2023 3
HOW WE SELECT WINNERS FOR EACH EARTHSHOT
Our selection priorities provide transparency on our areas of particular focus. To craft these priorities, we have
consulted widely with experts and conducted extensive research and analysis.
THREE FOCUS AREAS PER
EARTHSHOT, PLUS
WILDCARDS
1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3
Potential for global impact: environmental impact, social impact
SIX CROSS-CUTTING Diversity of nominations: geographic, sector, demographic, nominee type
FILTERS TO ASSESS Stage of solution: beyond idea stage and at a tipping point for scaling within five years
AGAINST
Organisation foundations: quality and inclusivity of leadership, financial maturity, scale model
Key enablers: tech & data, financial & legal mechanisms, Indigenous leadership, shared economic opportunity
Type of intervention: preventative, adaptive, restorative
2023 NOMINEE COHORT Top nominees go through to selection
OUR EARTHSHOT FOCUS AREAS 4
THREE PRIORITY AREAS WITHIN EACH EARTHSHOT
PROTECT CLEAN OUR REVIVE OUR BUILD A FIX OUR
AND RESTORE AIR OCEANS WASTE-FREE CLIMATE
NATURE WORLD
1. Efforts to protect and 1. Engaging citizens in 1. Reducing overfishing 1. Waste-free food, 1. Renewable energy for
manage natural carbon data collection and including efforts to all
stores such as peatlands
2. Developing ocean
advocacy ecosystem services shift to a plant-based 2. Reducing methane
and intact forests diet
2. Efforts to stop burning that mitigate climate emissions
2. Efforts to restore forests, in agriculture and change: “Blue Carbon” 2. Waste-free fashion
wetlands, and other 3. Constructing buildings
forests 3. Climate change 3. Circular solutions: fit for the future
damaged ecosystems
3. Efforts to develop and
3. Transitioning to clean solutions with oceans extending the life of
scale regenerative personal transportation benefits goods and/or
agriculture eliminating single-use
goods
This is a guide and not an exhaustive set of criteria. We would love to see nominations from these priority areas, but we will consider
nominations on any topic within any Earthshot. We encourage ‘wildcard’ nominations and insights we haven’t considered,
particularly when those nominations have the potential to inspire people globally.
OUR SIX FILTERS FOR ASSESSING NOMINATIONS 5
1. POTENTIAL FOR GLOBAL IMPACT
All nominations should have the potential to be relevant on a global level by 2030:
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT GLOBAL SOCIAL IMPACT
Solutions that could have global impact by 2030 on a relevant Solutions that could have global impact on a relevant social
environmental metric. For example: impact metric by 2030. For example:
Tonnes of Tonnes of waste Litres of water
Greenhouse Gas saved, reduced, saved, reduced,
Emissions saved, recycled or avoided recycled or avoided
captured or avoided
Number of ’green’ Number of lives
jobs created improved
Reduction in levels Hectares of land, Biodiversity
of fine particulate ocean or water increases in land,
matter (PM2.5/10) systems restored, sea or rivers
protected or rewilded
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OUR SIX FILTERS FOR ASSESSING NOMINATIONS 6 2. DIVERSITY OF NOMINATIONS We accept solutions from any country or sector in the world. This could be: • An individual (such as a leader or an activist) • A team or small group of individuals • An organisation (not-for-profit or for-profit) • A public sector body/government (including a country or city) • A partnership/consortium of more than one organisation Our past Finalists have included grassroots non-profits, tech- driven start-ups, global data monitoring systems, cities and a country. Diversity is our strength and will be a key consideration in our selection process to ensure our finalists represent a diverse range of nominee types, sectors, geographies and demographics.
OUR SIX FILTERS FOR ASSESSING NOMINATIONS 7
3. STAGE OF SOLUTION
The Earthshot Prize focuses on solutions that with monetary, communications, network and organisational support can rapidly scale
or be replicated. We’re seeking solutions that:
HAVE NOT HAVE MADE
ARE DEVELOPED
ALREADY SIGNIFICANT
WELL BEYOND
ENTERED A PROGRESS IN
THE IDEA STAGE
SIGNIFICANT THE LAST YEAR
but may still have
development What “breakthroughs”,
requirements to address
GROWTH STAGE whether it be the solution
before they are ready to where they are limited or the organisation,
scale their impact only by capital demonstrate recent
progress?
• They have working prototypes, programs & Solutions that have already achieved this level of Examples of breakthroughs include:
initiatives, or executed pilots that demonstrate maturity will benefit less from The Earthshot • Creation/iteration of a functional prototype
the effectiveness of their solution Prize and are therefore less of a focus. • Launch of an in-market pilot program
• They have tested their solution with the target • Close of a first customer/contract
users or recipients and have seen early positive • Successful fundraising
impact or successes • Completion of major research trial
• They may already be in market with customers, • Launch in new geography or sector
partners or audiences but to a limited scale • Key hires made
OUR SIX FILTERS FOR ASSESSING NOMINATIONS 8
4. ORGANISATION FOUNDATIONS
QUALITY OF LEADERSHIP INCLUSIVE LEADERSHIP FINANCIAL MATURITY SCALE MODEL
Is there a dedicated team or Is the team diverse and inclusive? Does the potential nominee have Does the potential nominee have
founder in place who is committed financial processes in place to line of sight to a model by which
to scaling the impact of the track sources and uses of funds they could replicate or be scaled?
organization? and conduct basic financial
reporting?
This does not require a We will prioritise teams that Ideally these processes would Again, this does not need to be
complete team, but there is a demonstrate inclusivity and also include financial planning fully fledged or developed. The
person or small team ready to representation because of the and budgeting to enable a Earthshot Prize helps
execute the tasks required to well-documented and outsize disciplined use of resources. A nominees develop their scale
bring their solution to the impact this has on teams’ Board of Directors or Trustees, model and grow, but it is
world. These people will bring efficacy and performance. We or an Advisory Board of some helpful if the nominee has
deep knowledge of the will be looking for teams that form is often a good indicator already started to think about
challenge their solution represent their wider of an institution or organization how they could scale their
addresses and how their community, including female- that is sufficiently mature to impact, including what
solution results in positive led and female-owned benefit from The Earthshot partnerships or other external
environmental impact. solutions. Prize. relationships would accelerate
them, and what resources or
skills they may need.
OUR SIX FILTERS FOR ASSESSING NOMINATIONS 9
5. ENABLERS
All nominations will be assessed for relevance to these four cross-cutting enablers. These are not a requirement but are a strong
signal that a solution may be particularly relevant for The Earthshot Prize. We will seek out nominations that play one, many or all
the four enabling factors:
SOLUTIONS THAT USE WEB3 SOLUTIONS THAT LEVERAGE SOLUTIONS LED AND SOLUTIONS THAT PROMOTE
AND OTHER TECHNOLOGIES NEW FINANCIAL AND LEGAL INFORMED BY INDIGENOUS SHARED ECONOMIC
TO ENABLE MECHANISMS TO CREATE PEOPLE AND LOCAL OPPORTUNITY
TRANSFORMATIVE CHANGE SCALABLE INCENTIVES FOR COMMUNITIES
GLOBAL CHANGE
OUR SIX FILTERS FOR ASSESSING NOMINATIONS 10
6. TYPE OF INTERVENTION
10-20% 20-30% 50-60%
ADAPTATION RESTORATION PREVENTION
We know that much damage is already We want to make systems we use today We primarily seek innovations that can
done. We seek innovations that help better. In this, we seek innovations that provide an alternative to approaches that
minimise the impact on people and on the are regenerative or restorative cause harm
environment
Example: adapting man-made coastal defences Example: restoring corals like Coral Vita, or Example: renewable energy and cleaner
into marine ecosystems like Living Seawalls. regenerating barren landscapes like Desert alternatives to fossil fuels, like AEM Electrolyser
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