Kheyti an Indian startup has been ranked amongst the top five startups as the winner of the ‘Prince Williams Earthshot Prize’ which is based on rewarding projects that are focused on saving the environment. It won in the Project and Restore Nature category. The idea of this award ceremony was to seek out and back innovative solutions under these 5 categories: Protect and Restore Nature, Clean Our Air, Revive Our Oceans, build a Waste-Free World, and Fix Our Climate. Winners also included startups founded by women in Kenya which designed cleaner burning stoves that use marine plants to create biodegradable packaging.
The winners of this prize received 1 million pounds each. Prince William awarded these innovators in a ceremony held in Boston at the MGM Music Hall. The top-notch award ceremony included David Attenborough, Rami Malek, David Beckham, and Cate Blanchett with a musical performance by Chloe x Halle.
Kheyti is a startup that designed ‘greenhouse-in-a-box’ for farmers and is a solution-driven firm. It aims to provide the tools to farmers with the greenhouse-in-a-box by the year 2027. Their innovative idea will save water and pesticides with a much higher yield at a fraction of the cost. In the year 2021, the Earthshot Prize Ceremony was hosted in London in collaboration with India-based project Takachar which won the prize in the ‘Clean Our Air’ Category.
Talal Hasan is the founder of 44.01, a project that promises to turn carbon dioxide into rock
Charlot Magayi is one of the five Earthshot Prize winners with her stoves fired by cleaner fuels
These awards were the second edition of the ‘Earthshot’ Prizes. The prizes are named with the reference to the “Moonshot” ambition of 1960s America by then-President John F Kennedy, who promised to get a man on the Moon within a decade. During the award ceremony, Prince Williams said, “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”.
