Earthshot 3 - The prize winners
Discovery
BBC
4.3 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Over the last 2 weeks we have featured the 15 finalists in the Earthshot prize, an initiative to highlight and award projects designed to conserve and sustain natural environments, and improve our lives in ways that are sensitive to issues such as climate change and biodiversity loss. Here we discuss this year’s winning projects and what future investment could mean for them.
There are five prize categories with a million pounds up for grabs in each.
Protect and restore nature. Clean our air. Revive our oceans. Build a waste-free world. Fix our climate.
Image: Europe, Middle East and Africa region on planet Earth from space. (Elements by NASA) Credit: Harvepino/Getty Images
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| 0:00.0 | Before you listen to this BBC podcast, I'd like to tell you why I love podcasting. |
| 0:04.3 | I'm Sasha Johansson, I'm an Assistant Commissioner for the BBC and I work on making podcasts. |
| 0:11.1 | My real passion is discovering unbelievable unheard stories and working with the biggest |
| 0:16.8 | stars who can really bring those stories to life. |
| 0:20.0 | I love the whole process of making podcasts from the spark of an idea to hearing the final |
| 0:25.9 | edit. |
| 0:26.9 | There's nothing like it. |
| 0:27.9 | What makes BBC podcast special is that we're working for you, so whatever we commission |
| 0:32.6 | has to reflect the things that you care about and love, wherever you are in the UK. |
| 0:37.0 | So if you like this BBC podcast, there's so much more to discover. |
| 0:40.6 | Have a listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:42.4 | As a species, we've really done our best to trash our planet. |
| 0:46.4 | Wildlife is in decline everywhere. |
| 0:48.9 | Oceans and rivers are polluted with our chemicals and plastics and we're radically altering |
| 0:53.4 | the planet's climate. |
| 0:55.4 | Over the past two weeks, we've been balancing those terrifying truths with the dose of optimism. |
| 1:00.4 | I've been talking to the finalists competing for the Earth's shot prize, a global competition |
| 1:05.1 | that aims to highlight and encourage some of the best ideas to reverse our impact on |
| 1:10.6 | the planet. |
| 1:12.0 | From the BBC World Service, this is Discovery, I'm Chavisach Dev. |
| 1:19.4 | There have been so many terrific ideas. |
| 1:21.6 | I've absolutely loved the 15-year-old girl from Tamil Nadu, who's invented a solar |
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