Mumbai to host The Earthshot Prize 2026

• The announcement took place during the inaugural Mumbai Climate Week.
• Mumbai joins previous Earthshot host cities Rio de Janeiro, Cape Town, Singapore, Boston and London.
• India is home to more Earthshot Prize Winners and Finalists than any other country.

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Mumbai was today announced as the host city for The Earthshot Prize 2026 – the world’s most prestigious and impactful environmental award.

The multi-day celebration of environmental leaders who are delivering bold solutions to repair our planet will come to India for the first time in November.

Founded by HRH Prince William, The Earthshot Prize exists to inspire a decade of urgent optimism and environmental action.

The celebration in Mumbai will bring together environmental and business leaders, investors and philanthropists who are spearheading change. The Awards Night will culminate in five Earthshot leaders each winning £1 million to accelerate the impact of their innovative solutions.

As a global megacity, Mumbai represents the environmental opportunities facing the world today. From clean energy and new technology, to nature restoration, India is proving that environmental responsibility can drive economic growth. India is home to more Earthshot Prize Winners and Finalists than any other country.

The unveiling of Mumbai as the host city took place at a special event during the city’s inaugural Climate Action Week. Leaders from science, business, politics and the arts heard from previous Earthshot Finalists from India on how they are scaling solutions to repair and restore the planet.

Inspired by President John F. Kennedy’s 1962 ‘Moonshot’ to land a man on the moon within a decade, The Earthshot Prize was founded by HRH Prince William in 2020 to spark the same spirit of collective ambition and action for our planet.

This year’s Prize will shine a global spotlight on 15 groundbreaking environmental solutions, under five categories developed in collaboration with leading environmental experts: Protect and Restore Nature; Clean our Air; Revive our Oceans; Build a Waste-Free World; and Fix our Climate.

Now five years into the Earthshot decade, the Prize has  identified  more than 5,600 emerging environmental innovations from 156 countries – including over 2,400 in 2025 alone – recognised and supported 75 Finalists and awarded £25 million to Prize Winners to scale their solutions.

Earthshot Prize Finalists have already:

• Protected and restored over 1 million square kilometres of land and oceans – an area nearly twice the size of France.
• Stopped 250,000 tonnes of waste reaching landfill – the same as 22,000 school buses.
• Captured 4.8 million tonnes of CO₂ – the equivalent of taking 1.2 million cars off the road for an entire year.

Earthshot Prize Finalists have collectively secured more US$500m in investment and philanthropy, setting the stage for unprecedented acceleration in solutions to repair our planet over the next five years.

Mumbai joins previous Earthshot host cities Rio de Janeiro, Cape Town, Singapore, Boston and London in being a launchpad for environmental action. India has a proud record of environmental solutions, and is home to seven Earthshot Prize Finalists, including four Winners:

• The State of Gujarat (2025 Finalist – Clean Our Air) The State of Gujarat in India has pioneered the world’s first trading scheme for particulate emissions, that lets businesses keep growing while providing clean, healthier air for its citizens.
• S4S Technologies (2023 Winner – Build a Waste-free World) S4S Technologies’ solar-powered dryers and processing equipment combats food waste – enabling smallholder farmers to preserve crops and turn produce, that might otherwise go to waste, into valuable products.
• Boomitra (2023 Winner – Fix Our Climate) Inspired by an event in India, and with multiple projects there (including the URVARA Project, Boomitra’s first and largest project in India involving over 12,000 smallholder farmers across nearly 50,000 acres) Boomitra is removing emissions and boosting farmer profits by incentivising soil restoration and the adoption of regenerative agriculture through a verified carbon-credit marketplace.
• Kheyti (2022 Winner – Protect and Restore Nature) Eight in ten of the world’s farmers are smallholders. Beset by climate-affected harvests, Kheyti‘s Greenhouse-in-a-Box is helping them reduce climate risk and increase yields.
• Fleather (2022 Finalist – Build a Waste-free World) Flowers cast into the Ganges River contain highly toxic pesticides. Phool used this floral waste to make a sustainable alternative to leather.
• Takachar (2021 Winner – Clean Our Air) Globally, we generate US$120 billion of agricultural waste every year, which is often burnt. Takachar’s technology massively reduces these emissions.
• Vinisha Umashankar (2021 Finalist – Clean Our Air) Its solar-powered ironing cart is a clean alternative to the charcoal powered street irons that press clothes for millions of Indians each day.