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Speakers announced for third annual Earthshot Prize Innovation Summit

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Michael R. Bloomberg, Jacinda Ardern, Matt Damon, José Andrés, Joel Embiid, Christiana Figueres, and Earthshot Prize Finalists and Winners will address attendees on September 24 in New York City.

Summit will unveil the 2024 Earthshot Prize Finalists while spotlighting the progress of the 2023 Finalists and Winners who are trailblazing solutions to repair and restore our planet.

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The Earthshot Prize and Bloomberg Philanthropies can announce the first slate of speakers for The Earthshot Prize Innovation Summit on September 24, 2024, at the Plaza Hotel in New York City.

The third Innovation Summit, held during New York Climate Week and the 79th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, will bring the 2023 Earthshot Prize Winners and Finalists together with policymakers, global business leaders, philanthropists, and climate activists to further spotlight and scale their solutions to address the world’s most crucial environmental challenges.

During the Summit, the fifteen 2024 Earthshot Prize Finalists, each eligible to receive one of five £1 million prizes to be awarded at The Earthshot Prize awards ceremony in Cape Town this November, will be revealed.

Matt Damon, Co-Founder of Water.org and WaterEquity, speaking the Earthshot Prize Innovation Summit in 2022

Michael R. Bloomberg speaking at the Earthshot Prize Innovation Summit in 2023

Earthshot Prize Trustee Jacinda Ardern speaking with Kaushik Kappagantulu, Kheyti, and Larissa Hale, Indigenous Women of the Great Barrier Reef at the Earthshot Prize Innovation Summit in 2023

Notpla co-foudners Pierre Paslier and Rodrigo Garcia Gonzalez presenting at the Earthshot Prize Innovation Summit in 2023

Hannah Jones, CEO of The Earthshot Prize, will attend alongside Michael R. Bloomberg, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on Climate Ambition and Solutions and Global Advisor to the Winners of The Earthshot Prize.

They will welcome a number of speakers and special guests, including:

  • José Andrés, Founder, World Central Kitchen and Earthshot Prize Council Member
  • Rt Hon Dame Jacinda Ardern, Trustee, The Earthshot Prize
  • Justin Bibb, Mayor of Cleveland, OH
  • Matt Damon, Co-Founder, Water.org and WaterEquity
  • Joel Embiid, Cameroonian-American Professional Basketball Player
  • Mark Carney, UN Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance and Co-Chair of Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero
  • Dame Christiana Figueres, Chair, The Earthshot Prize
  • Jane Fonda, Actor and Activist, via a special video message
  • Maya Gabeira, Big Wave Surfer and Ambassador, Oceana
  • Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington
  • Brad Keywell, Co-Founder and CEO, Uptake
  • Wanjira Mathai, Managing Director, Africa and Global Partnerships at World Resources Institute and Earthshot Prize Council Member
  • Bonang Matheba, South African Radio Host and TV Presenter
  • Gina McCarthy, Managing Co-Chair, America Is All In, and first White House National Climate Advisor and U.S. EPA Administrator
  • Dr. Mahmoud Mohieldin, UN Special Envoy for Financing the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda
  • Susan Rockefeller, Founder, Musings; Shamina Singh, President, Mastercard
  • Masai Ujiri, Vice Chairman and President, Toronto Raptors and Co-Founder, Giants of Africa
  • Gary White, CEO & Co-Founder, Water.org and WaterEquity; and
  • Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Founder and CEO, Hip Hop Caucus

Earthshot Finalists and Winners in attendance

The Earthshot Prize’s 2023 Finalists will join the Summit to highlight their progress and impact over the past year while spotlighting the Prize’s five key pillars of climate solutions: Protect and Restore Nature, Clean Our Air, Revive Our Oceans, Build A Waste-Free World, and Fix Our Climate.

The 2023 Finalists and Winners attending the Earthshot Innovation Summit include:

 

Many of the 2024 Finalists being announced at the Summit will also be in attendance.

Additional speakers and guests will be shared soon.

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