City of Bogotá and Lagos Fashion Week among Earthshot Prize 2025 winners
Prince William's Earthshot Prize awards ceremony was recently held in Rio de Janeiro, where projects such as the extensive redevelopment of public space in the City of Bogotá and local reforestation efforts took home prizes.
The ceremony was held at the Museum of Tomorrow designed by Santiago Calatrava. Prince William took to the stage along with singers Anitta and Kylie Minogue as part of the ceremony, which awards £1 million to climate projects around the world.
As with past Earthshot Prize awards, the program was broken into five categories focused respectively on habitat restoration, waste management, ocean conservation, air improvement, and carbon reduction.
This year's winners include the city of Bogotá in the Clean Our Air category for its extensive improvement to its urban and transportation infrastructure to combat air pollution, and the local project Re:Green in the Protect and Restore Nature category, which "makes protecting forests financially viable" by combining restoration efforts in the local Atlantic Forest with a carbon credit program.
"It is an honour to receive this award on behalf of Bogotá," said Mayor of Bogotá Carlos Fernando Galán in winning remarks.
"This prize recognises the efforts of an entire city – of several administrations and many people – who for many years, have worked to innovate so all those who live in Bogotá can breathe better air, have a more sustainable public transport system and a greener city."
Lagos Fashion Week won in the Build a Waste-Free World category for its commitment to circular fashion.
Founded in 2011 by Omoyemi Akerele, the event requires designers to demonstrate their commitment to sustainable practices if they want to show their work, such as how they source and dye fabrics and produce and transport clothing.
It beat out Quay Quarter Tower in Sydney, Australia, by Danish architecture studio 3XN and Australian studio BVN, which was the first building to be nominated for an Earthshot award in the program's five-year history.
The 206-metre-tall skyscraper was originally built in 1976 as the AMP Center, then refurbished by the studios in 2022. Their retrofit approach retained 65 per cent of the skyscraper's original structure and 95 per cent of its core, resulting in 12,000 tonnes of embodied carbon saved, according to the team.
"What we'd like to do with the Quay Quarter Tower story is take everyone's lens to the point where they overlap and focus on the possibility of adaptive reuse at scale."
Holt told Dezeen the nomination was "a profound and humbling honour" and although "unsuccessful" in winning, 3XN would continue implementing a similar approach in future projects.
Other winning initiatives were the High Seas Treaty, a legal framework for global ocean conservation that "sets out clear measures to prevent overfishing, conserve ocean life and promote fair participation for developing countries" and Friendship, a Bangladesh-based organisation that works to prepare and protect local populations against climate change.
Previous Earthshot Prize winners have included solar-powered refrigeration units and an aid program which helps to prevent illegal fishing.
The photography is courtesy of the Earthshot Prize unless otherwise stated.
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