The Earthshot Prize is "the most prestigious environmental prize in the world," according to its website, and it's looking for solutions to climate change.
The prize, founded by Prince William four years ago, is now looking for solutions on six continents and 20 countries, and Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Earthshot Prize are holding an Innovation Camp in London this week to connect 50 climate innovators with experts, investors, and business leaders who will help them "accelerate their transformative solutions and place them on a fast-track to scale," according to a press release.
The finalists are working on everything from "smart cities" to "smart energy" to "smart biomaterials," and Bloomberg says the solutions they're working on "could be nextand the stakes really could not be any higher."
The winners of the Earthshot Prize will each receive $1 million and a year of support from Bloomberg Philanthropies to work on their solutions, and Prince William, who's also the president of the Earthshot Prize, says he's "very alive on at the moment in all the work I do" and that this is a "critical decade for change."
Mashable reports that at the Innovation Camp, one of the solutions being worked on by the finalists was to
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