The Earthshot Prize 2025 | Exceptional Solutions to Urgent Global Challenges
Ocean Impact Organisation (OIO) is a proud Official Nominator of the Earthshot Prize 2025, which awards £1 million each to five winners – working across five key areas to repair the planet – every year until 2030.
These categories – or “Earthshots” are:
🌱 Protect and Restore Nature
💧 Clean Our Air
🌊 Revive Our Oceans
♻️ Build a Waste-Free World
🌡️ Fix Our Climate
Thanks to our role in the ocean health innovation ecosystem, both globally and in the Asia Pacific region, we’re excited to contribute to the Earthshot Prize’s search for exceptional solutions to the world’s most urgent environmental challenges, by nominating two Australian companies from our portfolio.
Drumroll please…
Blue Carbon
Blue Carbon - founded by Dr Ana Novak and Eva Chiu - helps businesses partner with nature to boost energy efficiency, decarbonise, and cut their environmental footprint.
Washbox
Washbox - founded by Andrew Crimston - is a mobile, closed-loop tool wash system for construction trades that saves water and helps stop pollutants from entering waterways.
Blue Carbon and Washbox are each pushing the boundaries of ocean health innovation with their game-changing solutions to help fix the climate, prevent ocean pollution, and more.
““I believe our world can be rich in possibility, in hope, and in optimism. That is why the Earthshot prize exists - to champion the game-changers, the inventors, the makers, the creatives, the leaders.””
Did You Know?
There’s been an ocean-connected Australian finalist every year of The Earthshot Prize so far.
The Earthshot Prize 2021 Finalists: Revive Our Oceans | Melanie Bishop & Katherine Dafforn’s team at Living Seawalls
The Earthshot Prize 2022 Winners: Revive Our Oceans | Larissa Hale’s team at Queensland Indigenous Womens Ranger Network
The Earthshot Prize 2023 Finalists: Fix Our Climate | Sam Elsom’s team – and also OIO alumni – at Sea Forest
The Earthshot Prize 2024 Finalists: Revive Our Oceans | Nick Hill’s team at Coast4c
Earthrise
This iconic shot taken aboard Apollo 8 by Bill Anders was the first photograph of the Earth captured from space and is credited with helping start the environmental movement.
Image Credit: NASA
Precious Matter
The Earthshot Prize award design by Christien Meindertsma was inspired by Earthrise and is made of 50 individual awards that depict a slightly different rotation of the Earth’s surface. They combine to form the planet, just as the 50 solutions of The Earthshot Prize will come together over the next decade to help repair the planet.
The Earthshot Prize awards have been made with recycled materials, including brass sourced from water pipe fittings, household waste and minute metal elements filtered from wastewater sludge, and then amalgamated together. And are presented in a recycled linoleum box, sourced from the ends of rolls from factories and made up of linseed oil, pine resin, wood dust, chalk and pigments.
Best of luck to all of the nominees! We’re excited to learn which 15 innovators (three from each category) will be selected as finalists for The Earthshot Prize 2025!
