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ANNOUNCER: Tonight, from Boston, it's the Earthshot Prize,

the most prestigious environmental awards

on the planet, and arriving on a star-studded green carpet

are the Prince and Princess of Wales, who are here to honor

those helping solve our biggest environmental challenges.

We'll find out which of these finalists will win

one of five £1 million prizes

to continue their work in saving the planet.

Get ready for a spectacular night of music and inspiration,

including Chloe x Halle, Ellie Goulding,

Annie Lennox, and Billie Eilish.

But first, a message

from the incomparable Sir David Attenborough.

I have witnessed the natural world in all its splendor.

But the challenges facing our planet today are enormous.

We must act now.

Tonight, we celebrate those who are

helping to protect our world.

The solutions are out there,

and tonight's finalists fill me with optimism.

This is the Earthshot Prize.

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(bear grunts)

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(cheering, applause)

ANNOUNCER: This is the Earthshot Prize 2022.

Please welcome your hosts,

Clara Amfo and Daniel Dae Kim.

(cheering, applause)

- Welcome to Boston and the Earthshot Prize,

the biggest environmental awards on the planet.

AMFO: Tonight, we are celebrating

the inspiring winners

and we'll have brilliant music from global stars.

- So let's kick things off with the sensational sisters

who are so good, Beyoncé signed them.

- Since then, they've been nominated for five Grammys,

and tonight they're here with "Feeling Good."

It is the sensational Chloe x Halle.

(cheering, applause)

♪ ♪

♪ Birds flying high ♪

♪ You know how I feel ♪

♪ Sun in the sky ♪

♪ You know how I feel ♪

♪ Breeze driftin' on by ♪

♪ You know how I feel ♪

♪ It's a new dawn ♪

♪ It's a new day ♪

♪ It's a new life ♪

♪ For me ♪

♪ And I'm feeling good ♪

♪ ♪

- Hey!

How are you all feeling tonight?

We're feeling so good.

We're feeling amazing. - Hey.

♪ ♪

- ♪ Fish in the sea ♪

♪ You know how I feel ♪

♪ River running free ♪

♪ You know how I feel ♪

♪ Blossom on a tree ♪

♪ You know how I feel ♪

♪ It's a new dawn ♪

♪ It's a new day ♪

♪ It's a new life for me ♪

♪ And I'm feeling good ♪

- Hey. - ♪ Ooh ♪

♪ Dragonflies out in the sun ♪

♪ You know what I mean, don't you know? ♪

♪ Butterflies all havin' fun ♪

♪ You know what I mean ♪

♪ Sleep in peace when day is done ♪

♪ And I know how I feel ♪

♪ And this old world is a new world ♪

♪ And a bold world ♪

♪ For me ♪

- ♪ For me... ♪

♪ Yeah ♪

♪ Stars when you shine ♪

♪ You know how I feel ♪

♪ Scent of the pine, you know how I feel ♪

♪ Freedom is mine ♪

- ♪ And I know how I feel ♪

♪ It's a new dawn ♪ - ♪ New dawn ♪

- ♪ It's a new day ♪ - ♪ New day ♪

- ♪ It's a new life ♪

♪ It's a new dawn ♪

♪ It's a new day ♪

♪ It's a new life ♪

♪ For me ♪

(singing on "me")

♪ And I'm feeling good ♪

(cheering, applause)

♪ And I'm feeling good ♪

- Mmm.

♪ And I'm feeling good ♪

♪ And I'm feeling good ♪

- (laughs) - Thank you.

- Thank you so much.

(cheering, applause)

(cheering, applause)

AMFO: Chloe x Halle, everybody.

Feeling exceedingly good after that.

And, still to come tonight,

Annie Lennox will be here,

Ellie Goulding, and Billie Eilish.

(cheering, applause)

Tonight, we are well and truly in the presence

of music royalty, acting royalty,

sporting royalty, and, well, royalty royalty.

KIM: Mm. (Amfo chuckles)

But mainly, we're in the presence

of environmental royalty,

as we find out who will be presented

with an Earthshot Prize.

Kind of like the Oscars for the Earth, right?

- Yeah, but without the slightly excessive goodie bags.

- Ah. - Even better still,

the five prize winners from all across the world

will be getting £1 million

towards their work helping protect our planet.

- Mm-hmm. Now, we don't just talk the environmental talk

on this show.

We walk the walk. - That's it.

All this gorgeous greenery and trees will be replanted

in schools and communities right here in Boston after the awards.

- Mm-hmm. (cheering, applause)

And it's all about reusing what we already have.

Everyone here tonight, including us,

has been asked to embrace preloved outfits,

and may I say, Clara, you look fabulous.

- Well, thank you very much. - (chuckles)

- A black dress-- forever reusable, my friend.

- Absolutely, absolutely.

Well, I've been wearing the same socks for a week,

so I got that going for me.

- You smell fantastic. - You're welcome.

- This year, the Earthshot has come to Boston,

and there's a very good reason why.

One of the most celebrated sons of this great city

was the inspiration behind the Earthshot Prize.

KIM: It's rooted in his ambition

to put an astronaut on the moon within the decade.

He called it "the Moonshot." Take a look.

♪ ♪

(projector whirring)

- We choose to go to the moon in this decade

and do the other things, not because they are easy,

but because they are hard.

(crowd applauds)

CAROLINE KENNEDY: 60 years ago, my father,

President John F. Kennedy, announced his moonshot,

declaring that America would send a man to the moon

within a decade.

- We meet in an hour of change

and challenge, in a decade of hope and fear,

in an age of both knowledge and ignorance.

JACK SCHLOSSBERG: If my generation wants a better world,

then we need to build it ourselves.

That's what President Kennedy believed,

and that's what powered his moonshot.

CAROLINE KENNEDY: It was a bold vision and a leap of faith.

No one knew if it was possible,

but my father believed that great challenges

are great opportunities,

and that together, we could reach the stars.

We're excited

that the Earthshot Prize is here in Boston,

a city committed to science and progress

and the fight to repair the planet.

- Because that challenge is one

that we're willing to accept,

one we are unwilling to postpone,

and one we intend to win.

(crowd applauds)

CAROLINE KENNEDY: Today, his powerful words still resonate.

They've become the inspiration for the Earthshot Prize

as we take on the most urgent challenge we face,

repairing and restoring our planet within the decade.

♪ ♪

The impossible is possible.

(cheering, applause)

- Absolutely.

"Impossible" is not a word we use around here.

- Which is why, when we were asked to send

the founder of the Earthshot Awards

somewhere he could see all

the wonders of our planet, we said,

"Okay, we know just the place." - Mm.

Yes, it's a bit off the beaten track,

and the atmosphere is not that great,

but the view is out of this world.

That's right-- we, Clara and I, sent him to the moon.

- Of the many wonders of the natural world that surround

each of us every day, it is only from space

that we can fully comprehend the gift that is our home.

Earth holds such splendor and gives us many things--

beauty, curiosity, joy,

and most importantly, Earth gives us life.

♪ ♪

For too long, many of us have taken for granted

everything our planet gives us.

We have polluted our atmosphere

and our oceans, and destroyed many unique habitats.

This year, we have seen the influence of climate change

like never before, with record-high temperatures

and extreme weather events

causing devastation across every continent,

affecting people's health and livelihoods.

The urgency needed to save the planet is ever-accelerating,

while the time we have to make meaningful changes

is ebbing away.

But just as President John F. Kennedy had faith

that humankind could put a man on the moon,

I have the same faith today that we can repair

and regenerate our planet in this critical decade.

From moonshot to Earthshot,

the seemingly unsolvable can be solved.

The winners of last year's Earthshot Prize

have already seen their solutions take giant leaps.

This ingenuity and ambition from across the globe

is continuing to inspire others.

♪ ♪

And tonight, in Boston, the search to find,

celebrate, and scale the next five

inspiring Earthshot winners continues.

Solutions that will protect and restore nature,

revive our oceans, clean our air,

build a waste-free world, and fix our climate.

The ambition and innovation of tonight's 15 finalists

will help put the world on a path towards a stable climate

where communities, nature, and oceans thrive in harmony.

Together, we can achieve a sustainable future

for generations to come.

Together, we will change the future of our planet.

♪ ♪

(cheering, applause)

- Now, all tonight's nominees

and their groundbreaking solutions will benefit

from the Earthshot Prize.

But there can only be five winners.

- Our finalists span five continents,

and they are standing by across the globe

waiting to hear who has won.

- So presenting the first award

is an Academy Award-winning actor

who was named one of the most 100

influential people in the world.

- And he's using that influence to help immigrants and refugees

and fight climate change and pollution.

This is Fix Our Climate.

And to present the award, please welcome Rami Malek.

(cheering, applause)

♪ ♪

- Thank you.

It wasn't long ago that the scientists

who warned us about climate change were regarded eccentric.

At that time, most people hadn't yet experienced

the effects of climate change for themselves.

But now, examples of all that they predicted

are happening across the world.

Forest fires, flooding, storms, landslides, droughts,

and unprecedented temperatures,

with the last seven years being the hottest on record.

But the human spirit loves a challenge.

Tonight's finalists for Fix Our Climate have

thoroughly harnessed this spirit,

and we are fortunate to be guided

by their research and knowledge

and their determination.

Let's take a look at the nominees.

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ANNOUNCER: 44.01, eliminating CO2 from the atmosphere.

MAN: Excess CO2 in our atmosphere

is destabilizing our climate.

Our solution takes captured CO2

and permanently turns it into rock.

By speeding up the natural process of mineralization,

we can remove carbon from the atmosphere

and help reduce rising temperatures.

ANNOUNCER: Lanzatech,

transforming pollution into essential day-to-day products.

WOMAN: We have found a way to recycle carbon

by harnessing the power of biology,

artificial intelligence, and engineering.

We take carbon dioxide and convert it to ethanol.

Then we can use that ethanol to make everyday items,

enabling a new circular carbon economy where it is

reused rather than wasted.

ANNOUNCER: Low Carbon Materials,

making construction greener.

WOMAN: Construction around the globe emits huge amounts

of pollution and CO2,

and concrete has a big part to play in this.

The production of some common ingredients

in concrete are carbon-intensive.

We've created an alternative ingredient

made of waste materials that would otherwise be burnt

or sent to landfill that can be added to concrete

to make it net-zero.

MALEK: The award for Fix Our Climate and the first

Earthshot of 2022 goes to...

44.01.

(cheering, applause)

(cheering, whooping)

KIM: Congratulations to 44.01

and their ingenious solution to capture carbon

and turn it into rock.

Absolutely brilliant. Let's find out more.

♪ ♪

TALAL HASAN: Growing up in Oman was an absolute privilege.

Pristine beaches, corals, and desert.

My biggest influence growing up was my uncle.

He introduced me to camping, to the desert,

to the beach, even snorkeling and scuba diving.

He taught me we should always leave the environment

in a better condition than when we first arrived.

Around four years ago, I came across an article

about the dead zone off the coast of Oman.

A dead zone is an area of the sea

where there's little or no oxygen content.

It's very difficult for most marine life to survive

and thrive in those conditions.

The dead zone here in our region

is about the size of Florida.

Carbon dioxide is the number-one greenhouse gas

that's emitted today.

And as that carbon dioxide gets absorbed by our oceans,

this intensifies the dead zone.

I found that there are very few solutions out there

that could help us permanently remove carbon dioxide at scale,

and this is when I came across Professor Juerg's research.

- I'm Juerg Matter, I'm the sub-surface lead of 44.01.

Our solution is, we capture carbon dioxide

from the atmosphere, we dissolve it in water,

which is basically a sparkling water.

- And we inject that into the sub-surface,

into the geological underground, where it reacts

with peridotite rocks.

By speeding up the natural process of mineralization,

we can remove carbon from the atmosphere

and help reduce climate change.

Nature shows us how to do it,

we just need to speed up what nature is doing.

♪ ♪

In Oman, we have one of the world's largest

deposits of this rock.

We've just completed the first pilot,

and now we need to improve the technology

before we can really scale this globally.

Climate change is a massive challenge,

and we need every tool in our toolbox

to tackle this challenge.

Thinking back to when I was younger and I was in the desert

camping with my uncle, I had a lot of hopes

and dreams for the future of the climate,

and today we're in a position to actually contribute

to the fight against climate change.

This really is the legacy of the values my uncle taught me,

and for him to get to see what I'm doing makes me very proud.

(cheering, applause)

- Massive congratulations, Talal and 44.01.

Talal, tell us, is your superstar

of an uncle there to help you celebrate?

- He is here, and I'm really pleased

to share this moment with him.

It's a proud day for all of us here at 44.01.

And I just want to say a massive thank you to the team

and to everyone else who's supported us along this journey.

We started 44.01 two years ago

when we saw the very real impact climate change

was having on our country here in Oman.

Climate change is a massive challenge,

and it gives us hope seeing all these finalists here today.

We're so grateful to the Earthshot Prize

for helping us with this vital fight.

Shukran and thank you.

(cheering, applause)

- And now to present our second award,

our second royal guest for the evening,

who is currently relieved that her husband

has returned from the moon in one piece.

- Thank goodness. This is Clean Our Air.

Please welcome Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales.

(cheering, applause)

♪ ♪

- To breathe clean air is something

so many of us take for granted.

But sadly, for millions of people around the world,

it is not a given.

From smog enveloping cities to the impacts seen

in nature, air pollution poses a threat that knows no borders.

Heartbreakingly,

over 250 million children under the age of five

are breathing polluted air every single day.

And this fact is even harder to hear

because we know the significant impact

pollution has on our lifelong development.

But there are reasons to be hopeful,

and I'm delighted to see the work

of our three finalists and their solutions to Clean Our Air.

They are...

♪ ♪

ANNOUNCER: Roam, providing electric transport in Africa.

MAN: I live in Kenya, where air pollution kills

thousands of people every year and motor vehicles

are a critical part of the problem.

We need new, cleaner ways to power Kenya's transport.

Our company aims to electrify the transport sector in Africa.

We are providing eco-friendly, affordable transport for all.

(horns honking)

ANNOUNCER: Ampd Enertainer, battery-powered construction.

MAN: The construction industry is powered

by polluting diesel generators.

Our solution is the Ampd Enertainer,

a battery system that's designed specifically

for powering up a construction project

without the need for fossil fuels.

We are making construction more sustainable

and we are driven to create

an emission-free future for construction.

ANNOUNCER: Mukuru Clean Stoves.

WOMAN: Across the globe, about 2.5 billion people

have their healths negatively impacted

by household air pollution.

That's why I created

the Mukuru Clean Stoves.

They provide a safer environment for families

and children by eliminating most toxic smoke.

♪ ♪

PRINCESS KATE: And the Earthshot for Clean Our Air

and a recipient of £1 million to scale their work is...

Mukuru Clean Stoves.

(cheering, applause)

(cheering, whooping)

AMFO: Congratulations, Mukuru Clean Stoves.

Let's find out more about their affordable

and clean-cook stoves for homes in Kenya and beyond.

CHARLOT MAGAYI: When you're using a traditional stove

to cook, it emits toxic smoke, it causes respiratory illnesses,

it can cause lung cancer.

♪ ♪

I grew up in Mukuru, it's one of the biggest slums in Nairobi.

I was orphaned at the age of ten years, and at 16,

I became a teenage mom.

I would use a traditional stove to cook for my daughter,

and when she turned two, she suffered a severe burn injury

caused by a stove.

She passed by the stove, kicked it, and it fell on her.

And it was horrible.

I wasn't sure if she was still alive.

It took a while, but once she was able to recover,

I went to college, and initially,

I wanted to just build a more stable stove

to limit the risk of burns in children,

and learned about the effects of household air pollution.

And that's how Mukuru Clean Stoves was born.

We use waste metal to manufacture

improved cook stoves.

The way we designed our stove,

it retains a lot of heat, so it allows for the fuel

that you're using to burn for longer,

eliminating toxic smoke that would be produced

on a traditional stove.

♪ ♪

So you're reducing the carbon

that is emitted into the atmosphere.

So it's a double benefit for the local communities

and climate change.

BEATRICE OLANDO (speaking Swahili):

MAGAYI: The people that a Mukuru Stove impacts

the most are women and girls,

as they're the ones who spend hours collecting firewood

and using traditional stoves to cook for their families.

It enables young girls to be able to go to school,

focus on education.

So it's beneficial for their health,

it's beneficial for the local environment.

- I'm proud of my mom

because she inspires young girls.

When I grow up, I want to be like her.

MAGAYI: My ambition is to eradicate

household air pollution.

And because we are all collectively

joining hands to do our part,

I believe we are going to be able to repair the planet.

(cheering, applause)

AMFO: Wow. Wow, wow, wow.

Charlot, I think we all want to be a lot more

like you, so tell us: how does it feel to win?

- Thank you. It is a great honor to win

the Earthshot Prize and to receive this recognition.

To the Mukuru Clean Stoves team for your dedication to providing

a better cooking technology and helping clean our air,

congratulations.

It's also really great to celebrate with

my daughter and her classmates today.

I hope the work we do really impacts their generation

and future generations.

In 2017, I set out to help women in Mukuru

reduce household air pollution.

Five years later, 200,000 households

use a Mukuru stove, and the Earthshot Prize

is going to help us reach the next one million households,

impacting the lives of five million people

who will now benefit from cleaner air within their homes

and putting us so much closer to achieving our goal,

which is to eradicate household air pollution.

Let us work together to clean our air. Thank you.

(cheering, applause)

- Okay, time for an exclusive

Earthshot performance from the superstar that is Billie Eilish.

- Yes. (cheering, applause)

Here she is with a mesmerizing performance of "My Future."

- ♪ I can't seem to focus ♪

♪ And you don't seem to notice I'm not here ♪

♪ I'm just a mirror ♪

♪ You check your complexion ♪

♪ To find your reflection's all alone ♪

♪ I had to go ♪

♪ Can't you hear me? ♪

♪ I'm not comin' home ♪

♪ Do you understand? ♪

♪ I've changed my plans ♪

♪ 'Cause I ♪

♪ I'm in love ♪

♪ With my future ♪

♪ I can't wait to meet her ♪

♪ And I ♪

♪ I'm in love ♪

♪ But not with anybody else ♪

♪ Just wanna get to know myself ♪

♪ Mmm, I know supposedly I'm lonely now ♪

- ♪ Lonely now ♪

- ♪ Know I'm supposed to be unhappy ♪

♪ Without someone ♪ - ♪ Someone ♪

- ♪ But aren't I someone? ♪ - ♪ Aren't I someone? ♪

- ♪ I'd ♪ - ♪ I'd ♪

- ♪ Like to be your answer ♪

- ♪ To be your answer ♪

- ♪ 'Cause you're so handsome ♪

- ♪ You're so handsome ♪

- ♪ But I know better ♪

♪ Than to drive you home ♪

♪ 'Cause you'd invite me in ♪

♪ And I'd be yours again ♪

- ♪ But I ♪ - ♪ I ♪

- ♪ I'm in love ♪ - ♪ Love ♪

- ♪ With my future ♪

♪ And you don't know her ♪

♪ Ooh ♪

♪ And I ♪

♪ I'm in love ♪

♪ But not with anybody here ♪

♪ I'll see you ♪

♪ In a couple years ♪

(song ends)

(cheering, applause)

AMFO: Wow. KIM: Mm-hmm.

- Simply beautiful. Billie and Finneas, everyone!

Now, our third Earthshot is Build A Waste-Free World.

And to present it, one of the greatest players

ever to have graced a football pitch.

He's also a dedicated UNICEF Ambassador.

But tonight, he's here to talk to us

about waste and what to do with it.

- Oh, surely it's obvious what we have to do with it.

- Mm-hmm. - We have to

bin it like Beckham. - Wow.

(laughter)

- Ladies and gentlemen,

this is Build A Waste-Free World.

Please welcome David Beckham.

(cheering, applause)

♪ ♪

(cheering, applause)

- Thank you.

Good evening, everyone. So I was...

(audience whooping)

I was honored to be invited by Prince William

to be part of this year's Earthshot Prize.

Now, I'm an optimist because humans are

capable of great creativity when we collaborate.

We create beauty in art, music,

film, and, of course, sport.

We create things that bring us comfort

in this challenging world.

But we also create waste.

We make over 300 million tons of plastic per year.

That's the equivalent in weight to every adult on Earth.

Tonight is about solutions. Let's look at the incredible

work of our finalists aiming to Build A Waste-Free World.

The nominees are...

♪ ♪

ANNOUNCER: Fleather by Phool, vegan leather.

MAN: Every year, millions of tons of waste

is generated here in India through ceremonial flowers.

By re-purposing these flowers, we have created a eco-friendly

plant-based leather.

It performs like animal leather, but is animal-free,

plastic-free, biodegradable, and compostable.

It has the potential to replace the highly polluting

global tanning leather industry.

ANNOUNCER: Notpla, plastic-free packaging.

MAN: Single-use plastics are destroying the environment.

Using seaweed, we've created a biodegradable

alternative to plastic packaging.

Our packaging can be composted

with the rest of your food waste.

We're hoping to make single-use plastic a thing of the past

and build towards a cleaner, less wasteful world.

ANNOUNCER: The City of Amsterdam Circular Economy.

MAN: Cities create lots of waste,

and it's a huge problem for the planet.

This is the City of Amsterdam,

and we are building a circular economy.

Our aim is to reduce, recycle, and re-use

as much as possible by 2050.

We are the first city to fully adopt this model,

and we believe this can be a blueprint

for others around the globe.

(cheering, applause)

- And I can announce that the 2022 Earthshot

for Build A Waste-Free World goes to...

Notpla.

(cheering, applause)

♪ ♪

- Congratulations to Notpla, who have found a way

to replace plastic with a material made from seaweed.

Let's find out more.

♪ ♪

PIERRE: Billions of single-use plastics are used every year.

They break down into microplastics,

which find their way into our oceans, food, and our bodies.

Our reliance on plastic has gone on for far too long.

We have to stop.

It's time to find a new solution.

RODRIGO: And what if that solution came from the ocean?

PIERRE: But our story doesn't start here in Wales.

It starts in a student apartment in London back in 2012.

♪ ♪

We met each other on the first day of university.

We messed around in the kitchen day and night.

For us, what was really important is to use things

that would be very renewable,

that would not be chemically modified, and that would

essentially be completely easy for nature

to deal with at end of life.

We tried to make packaging that was actually edible.

- And quite early on we found out that seaweed

was a really great candidate.

PIERRE: We researched and researched;

it was painstakingly time-consuming.

RODRIGO: We were close to giving up, but the breakthroughs

we were making by using seaweed started to get noticed.

PIERRE: We were onto something

that could have a lot of potential.

Seaweed is an amazing material--

it grows incredibly fast, with some species able

to grow over 30 centimeters per day.

RODRIGO: As it grows, it absorbs carbon dioxide,

so it has the potential to tackle climate change.

PIERRE: The Notpla team has been working really hard to develop

products such as consumable liquid sachets,

ketchup sachets, takeaway boxes.

We developed a coating that we put onto takeaway food boxes.

Typically, they have a thin layer of plastic

and we replaced that with seaweed,

so that the whole packaging

is completely natural and biodegradable.

♪ ♪

IVANA PETRAK: We use the packaging

on a daily basis, and I think it's great.

It's good for customers,

good for business, so good for everyone.

♪ ♪

RODRIGO: Winning the Earthshot Prize will give us a platform

to not only scale up our operations,

but it will help those in the industry

to see what is possible.

PIERRE: What gives me hope is that nature

has all the solutions already.

Seaweed has been around for billions of years,

so wherever it ends up,

nature knows exactly how to break it down.

That means that if we fail as humans to collect our waste,

we're not leaving behind something

that nature cannot deal with.

♪ ♪

(cheering, applause)

- Rodrigo, Pierre,

congratulations.

You guys have gone from kitchen experiments

to a potentially world-changing solution.

How does it feel to win this prize money?

- It's really amazing.

I want to thank the whole Notpla team who's been working

so hard to make this innovation come to life,

and everyone who's been supporting us along the journey.

And I want to thank also the Earthshot Prize for creating

such an amazing platform and believing in our solution.

No one wants to live in a world full of plastic,

but it's not too late to act.

- We all have a role to play on it.

Let's shout louder about the change

we want to see in the world

and let's make plastic disappear!

(all laughing, cheering)

(cheering, applause)

- Excellent. Protect and Restore Nature.

That's not an order, though I really wish

I had that superpower.

It is, however, the category of our fourth Earthshot Prize.

- And to present it is a beloved and multi-award-winning

comedy actress, star of "Best in Show,"

"Home Alone," "Beetlejuice,"

and the sensational "Schitt's Creek"...

(cheering, applause)

AMFO: This is Protect and Restore Nature.

Please welcome the wonderful Catherine O'Hara.

(cheering, applause)

♪ ♪

(cheering, applause)

- (laughing)

We humans, we humans share this planet

with millions of other species, coexisting-- for now--

in a wondrous variety of habitats.

That's nature for you.

Unfortunately, we often see the natural world

only as an obstacle to getting what we want.

Sometimes we can't see the forest for the factory.

Tonight's nominees for Restore and Protect Nature

know that nature is our friend, and together we can safely

secure the health and welfare

of all beautiful life-forms. Here are the nominees.

♪ ♪

ANNOUNCER: Kheyti, modular greenhouses.

MAN: We've developed an affordable, modular greenhouse

that can play a vital role in protecting crops

from the unpredictable impacts

of changing weather systems

linked to climate change,

helping give farmers a steady income.

We believe our greenhouses can bring

a greener and more sustainable future

to vulnerable smallholder farmers.

♪ ♪

ANNOUNCER: Desert Agricultural Transformation.

MAN (speaking Mandarin):

Our solution is desert agricultural transformation.

(speaking Mandarin):

ANNOUNCER: Hutan, conserving threatened habitats

and wildlife species.

WOMAN: In Borneo, historic forest exploitation

has resulted in rain forest

being fragmented to a tipping point,

leaving wildlife with too little room to live.

By changing perceptions and mindsets

through collaboration, research, and reforestation,

we are reconnecting islands of forest

and creating safe passageways for wildlife.

♪ ♪

(applause)

O'HARA: The Earthshot

for Protect and Restore Nature

goes to Kheyti.

(cheering, applause)

♪ ♪

KAUSHIK: A majority of the food in the world

is grown by 500 million smallholder farmers.

♪ ♪

In India, there are 100 million of them.

(thunder rumbles)

But unpredictable weather systems linked to climate change

put them at a high risk of poverty.

This year, we saw the hottest month India has ever had

since records began over 120 years ago.

Just one bad harvest can reduce their income to zero.

SATHYA: I was about 17 years old when I saw a farmer

in my village eating mud.

He looked into my eyes and said, "My crops have failed.

My stomach doesn't know that my pocket is empty."

When Kaushik and I met, we were determined to do something.

KAUSHIK: We spent six months talking to a thousand farmers

across India to understand what their challenges are

and how we could solve them.

We got together a team of engineers, scientists,

and designers from around the world

to co-create our Kheyti greenhouses.

SATHYA: For our greenhouses to work,

we needed them to be affordable and modular.

Only then can the farmers invest in their future

and adapt the design for their plot of land.

KAUSHIK: The simple structure sits on a small portion

of a farmer's field and can be more sustainable

than traditional greenhouses seen on large farms.

They use less water than in open cultivation.

Climate risk is decreased for the farmer

and more crops can be grown in a smaller space,

which leads to less land being needed for agriculture.

MAN (speaking Telugu):

KAUSHIK: To make sure our farmers succeed,

we provide quality seeds, training, and advice.

SATHYA: We work with a wholesale vegetable market that sells

the produce of Kheyti farmers to local vendors.

MAN (speaking Telugu):

Today we work with about a thousand farmers

across six states of India.

Over the next ten years, we want to scale that

to a million farmers directly, but also inspire

a smart farming revolution around the world.

SATHYA: I dream of a day where smallholder farmer

equals a happy farmer,

and being forced to eat mud

should never happen anywhere again.

(cheering, applause)

- Such important work.

What would you like to share with us

now that you've won this award?

- A thousand thanks to the Earthshot Prize for this honor.

The idea of Kheyti started with a simple dream

that the hard work of half a billion farmers

across the world should pay off.

The only reason that vision persevered is because others

shared that dream-- our team, our families,

and, most importantly, the thousand-plus farmers

who have taken trust in us and taken a chance with us.

Congratulations to all of them. This is just the beginning.

We aim to help a million farmers over the next ten years,

and this prize can help us invest

in a solid foundation for that ambition.

Thank you for helping us ignite the smart farmer revolution.

(cheering, applause)

- Okay, time for another performance.

Now, we promised you music royalty,

and, boy, are we about to deliver.

- Quite simply, she's one of the all-time greats.

With "Here Comes the Rain Again,"

please welcome one of the most recent inductees

into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Annie Lennox.

(cheering, applause)

♪ ♪

(thunder rumbling, rain falling)

♪ ♪

- ♪ Here comes the rain again ♪

♪ Falling on my head like a memory ♪

♪ Falling on my head like a new emotion ♪

♪ Ooh ♪

♪ I want to walk in the open wind ♪

♪ I want to talk like lovers do ♪

♪ I want to dive into your ocean ♪

♪ Is it raining with you? ♪

♪ So, baby, talk to me ♪

♪ Like lovers do ♪

♪ Walk with me ♪

♪ Like lovers do ♪

♪ Oh, baby, talk to me ♪

♪ Like lovers do ♪

♪ Ooh ♪

♪ Yeah ♪

♪ Ooh, yeah ♪

♪ Here comes the rain again ♪

♪ Raining in my head like a tragedy ♪

♪ Tearing me apart like a new emotion ♪

♪ New emotion, new emotion ♪

♪ I want to breathe in the open wind ♪

♪ I want to kiss like lovers do ♪

♪ Want to dive into your ocean ♪

♪ Is it raining with you? ♪

♪ Is it raining ♪

♪ With ♪

♪ You? ♪

(song ends)

(cheering, applause)

- Annie Lennox, everyone. Truly iconic.

(cheering, applause)

And now it's time for the fifth and final Earthshot.

And to present it, the award-winning star

of "Big Little Lies."

She's also a prominent environmental activist,

passionate about protecting our oceans.

- She certainly is.

I was lucky enough to work with her,

and I know that when it comes

to environmental causes, she walks the walk.

Presenting the award to Revive Our Oceans,

please welcome Shailene Woodley.

(cheering, applause)

♪ ♪

Ours is a beautiful blue planet.

And underneath the surface of the brilliant blue,

our oceans are teeming with life.

Life that protects us in so many ways.

Carbon is captured by underwater forests,

nations are fed by the bounty within,

and coastline communities

are sheltered from storms by coral reefs.

Just three of the ways our oceans protect,

nourish, and indeed care for our Earth.

But the oceans that protect us also need our protection.

These are the three finalists whose solutions

will help Revive Our Oceans.

♪ ♪

ANNOUNCER: Sea Forester, restoring coastal ecosystems.

MAN: Hidden below the surfaces of the ocean,

seaweed forests are disappearing at an alarming rate.

Thousands of species and countless livelihoods

are depending on these crucial habitats.

Using innovative sea forestation techniques,

we are replanting and restoring the Earth's forgotten forests.

We grow seaweeds in our nurseries

before reintroducing them across the ocean floor.

The goal is to re-establish these underwater forests.

ANNOUNCER: Queensland Indigenous Women's Ranger Network.

WOMAN: Our oceans are

under pressure more than ever before.

We work across land and sea management and conservation,

such as sea turtle rescue and rehabilitation.

We protect our country by sharing our cultural knowledge

and using new technologies to help educate

and inspire the next generation.

(children laughing)

ANNOUNCER: The Great Bubble Barrier,

removing plastic from waterways.

WOMAN: The majority of plastics in our oceans comes from rivers.

We create a screen of bubbles that blocks plastic

from escaping to the oceans, and it redirects it

to the surface and riversides,

where it is retrieved, removed, and processed.

We stop these plastics from ever reaching our oceans.

(cheering, applause)

WOODLEY: The Earthshot for Revive Our Ocean goes to

Queensland Indigenous Women's Rangers Network.

(cheering, applause)

(cheering, whooping)

KIM: Congratulations to Larissa and the team.

Let's take... (laughs)

(audience whooping)

- Oh, my gosh.

- Let's take a look at the wonderful conservation work

that the Queensland Indigenous Women's Ranger Network are doing

to protect the oceans and coastlines where they live.

♪ ♪

(woman speaking Kuku Yalanji)

LARISSA HALE: Over 60,000 years of traditional knowledge

have given us an intimate understanding of coastal

and marine environments.

(fire crackling)

♪ ♪

For First Nations or Indigenous people, we don't separate

land and sea, it is one body.

So we have to look after all,

so that we have something for the future.

The Queensland Indigenous Women's Ranger Network

combines this experience with conservation work and training

to protect and manage land and sea country.

We're out there protecting species such as sea turtles

with our rescue and rehabilitation program,

measuring water quality in the area, and monitoring seagrasses,

which are such an important part of the ocean's ecosystem.

♪ ♪

Seagrass meadows are one of the most efficient

and powerful marine carbon sinks.

They can bury carbon in the seabed

much faster than tropical rain forests.

Over the years, I've seen a decline

in seagrass species here,

but also the quantity of the grasses.

They have been severely impacted by major cyclones and flooding.

♪ ♪

But thanks to our conservation and interventions,

such as closing stretches of beaches along the coastline,

we're helping protect seagrass ecosystems

and the species that depend on them.

♪ ♪

We're using new technology, such as drones,

to get to areas that we can't.

It's a great new tool in our fight to protect our oceans.

LEILANI HALE: I believe it's important to preserve

our marine habitats, because they're a part of our culture,

they're everything that make our identity,

and they're what keep our oceans alive.

♪ ♪

- How many species of turtle are in the world?

LARISSA HALE: Our junior rangers have the opportunity

to learn environmental land and sea management

with activities such as seagrass watch

and marine turtle identification.

Isn't she beautiful?

This gives them the tools that they need

to be the next custodians of these coastlines.

What gives me hope for the future is the fact that we have

a lot of young people that now want to be involved

in land and sea management.

Winning the Earthshot Prize means we can continue

the essential work of our network.

It's just a win-win situation all around for the environment

and for our communities.

We continue to protect and conserve our land,

not only for now, but also for the future generations.

(cheering, applause)

KIM: Tell us how you feel tonight

after winning this Earthshot Prize.

- I'd like to say thank you to the Earthshot Prize

for bringing into focus the urgent need

for action to protect our planet.

I am so humbled by this award.

I am grateful to every woman ranger in our network.

Thank you for being part of this

and walking this journey with me.

Thank you to my family,

my ancestors that came before me,

and to the young generations that's taking us forward.

In 2008, I was the only woman ranger coordinator

in Queensland. We now have 135.

(cheering, applause)

This prize is and will be a game-changer.

(breath trembling)

We are going to create a global opportunity

for First Nations female-led conservation programs,

a network for women coming together

to help repair the planet,

fueled by traditional knowledge and new technologies.

With hope and with positive actions like the ones

we've heard about, we can feel hopeful

for the future of our seas. Thank you very much.

(cheering, applause)

- Truly, it's been an uplifting and inspirational evening,

and I think the final word of tonight

must go to the person behind it all.

- Please welcome His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.

(cheering, applause)

♪ ♪

- Good evening.

We at the Earthshot Prize are all so grateful for the welcome

we've received this evening here in Boston

over the last few days.

When I founded this prize in 2020,

it was with the ambition to harness

the same spirit of ingenuity

that inspired President John F. Kennedy

to challenge the American people

to put a person on the moon within a decade.

So it has been an honor to share the stories

of our Earthshot winners and finalists

from the heart of his hometown.

I believe that the Earthshot solutions

you have seen this evening prove we can

overcome our planet's greatest challenges.

And by supporting and scaling them,

we can change our future.

Alongside tonight's winners and finalists,

and those to be discovered over the years to come,

it's my hope the Earthshot legacy will continue to grow,

helping our communities and our planet to thrive.

And in the same way the space effort

six decades ago created jobs,

boosted economies, and provided hope,

so too can the solutions born

of tonight's Earthshot Prize winners.

The decisions we make now will affect generations to come.

Which is why we must choose the path of hope,

optimism, and urgency to repair our planet.

Thank you.

(cheering, applause)

- Thank you to Prince William and all of our winners

for making tonight such a carnival of optimism.

- (chuckles): I want to say thank you

to everyone who's doing what they can

to ensure that our planet blossoms and blooms.

- Tonight has been a love-in for our wonderful Earth,

and what better way to end the evening

than, with "Still Falling For You,"

the wonderful Ellie Goulding?

Good night. - Good night!

(cheering, applause)

♪ ♪

- ♪ Fire and ice ♪

♪ This love is like fire and ice ♪

♪ This love is like rain and blue skies ♪

♪ This love is like sun on the rise ♪

♪ This love got me rolling the dice ♪

♪ Don't let me lose ♪

♪ Still falling for you ♪

♪ Still falling for you ♪

♪ It took us a while ♪

♪ With every breath a new day ♪

♪ With love on the line ♪

♪ We had our share of mistakes ♪

♪ But all your flaws and scars are mine ♪

♪ Still falling for you ♪

♪ Still falling for you ♪

♪ And just like that ♪

♪ All I breathe ♪

♪ All I feel ♪

♪ You are all for me ♪

♪ I'm in, and just like that ♪

♪ All I breathe ♪

♪ All I feel ♪

♪ You are all for me ♪

♪ And no one can lift me, catch me the way that you do ♪

♪ I'm still falling for you ♪

♪ Oh! ♪

♪ Falling, crash into my arms ♪

♪ Oh! ♪

♪ Love you like this ♪

♪ Like a first kiss, never let go ♪

♪ Oh! ♪

♪ Falling, crash into my arms ♪

♪ Never breaking what we got ♪

♪ Still falling for you ♪

♪ Still falling for... ♪

♪ And just like that ♪

♪ All I breathe ♪

♪ All I feel ♪

♪ You are all for me ♪

♪ I'm in ♪

♪ And just like that ♪

♪ All I breathe ♪

♪ All I feel ♪

♪ You are all for me ♪

♪ And just like that ♪

♪ All I breathe is you ♪

♪ All I feel is you ♪

♪ You are all for me ♪

♪ I'm still falling ♪

♪ And just like that ♪

♪ All I breathe is you ♪

♪ All I feel is you ♪

♪ You are all for me ♪

♪ No one can lift me, catch me the way that you do ♪

♪ I'm still falling for you ♪

(song ends)