Nearly three years after launching the Earthshot Prize, an annual award given to five climate change pioneers, Prince William has announced that the 2023 ceremony will be held this November in Singapore.

“The Earthshot Prize is all about showing the world that solutions to some of the biggest environmental challenges we face are out there,” the Prince of Wales said in a statement. “After two years of discovering impactful ideas and innovations, I am delighted that The Earthshot Prize is traveling to Singapore, where the ground-breaking solutions of our 2023 finalists will be celebrated.”

The prince founded the Earthshot Prize in 2020 to honor groups and companies that are already addressing the impacts of climate change. At the time, William said he wanted to “galvanize and bring together the best minds,” with hopes it would become as prestigious as the Nobel Peace Prize. Last year’s star-studded ceremony in Boston honored winners from around the globe and featured performers and presenters including Ellie Goulding, Chloe and Halle, Annie Lennox, Rami Malek, and Shailene Woodley. 

Rather than honoring ideas or potential innovations, the prize aims to celebrate early-stage successes and put winners on the road to scaling their solutions. The 2023 ceremony in Singapore will be one part of an Earthshot Week beginning on November 6, where global leaders, businesses, and investors will meet with prize finalists to discuss accelerating their projects, and put on local demonstrations.

Taking the prize to Singapore is an opportunity to spotlight the outsized impact that climate change will have on the region. “Developing Asia, especially Southeast Asia, will feel the effects of climate change disproportionately given our archipelagic and low-lying nature,” said Frederick Teo, CEO of GenZero, an investment platform company serving as a strategic partner for the event. “However, we are optimistic that the power of human ingenuity, supported by thoughtful and patient capital, can transform this crisis of our generation into the opportunity of our lifetimes.”

According to the prize’s administrators, the 2021 prize finalists have protected or restored over 7,000 hectares of land and almost 2.1 million hectares of ocean have been protected or restored, 35,000 tons of CO2 emissions have been avoided or sequestered, and the projects have impacted more than 1.5 million people. Finalists in the award’s five categories—Protect and Restore Nature, Clean Our Air, Revive Our Oceans, Build a Waste-Free World and Fix Our Climate—will be announced later this year.

Prince William and Princess Kate made their first official visit to Singapore in 2012, as a part of a larger Asia tour that took them to Malaysia, Tuvalu, and the Solomon Islands. While in Singapore, the royals viewed a white-and-purple orchid species named for them, and toured a garden where they saw blooms named after Princess Diana and Queen Elizabeth II.

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