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Unlocking Impact and Capital for Scalable Climate Solutions

The Earthshot Prize and Co-Axis are partnering up to spotlight high-impact and scalable solutions to our planet’s most critical challenges. By bringing Earthshot Finalists and Winners onto the Co-Axis platform, this collaboration connects eco-innovators with a global ecosystem of purposeful investors, philanthropists, and impact leaders.

More than just a showcase, this partnership acts as a gateway to the Temasek Trust ecosystem, matching scalable environmental solutions with the capital and community required to scale and succeed.

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2026 Finalists

Explore the 2026 Finalists of the Earthshot Prize and learn more about how you can support them.

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AirQo

Enabling cities and citizens to take action on air pollution through sensor networks, data collection, and insights. AirQo empowers African communities with hyperlocal, real-time air quality data to drive mitigation action—their impact pathway is fundamentally data-to-action: by making air pollution visible through deployed monitoring networks and AI analytics, they enable evidence-based decision-making from communities through to policymakers, closing the information gap that has long constrained air quality intervention across Africa.

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Mahila Housing Trust

Mahila Housing Trust is helping low-income communities with practical approaches to extreme heat, keeping homes up to 5°C cooler with affordable reflective roof coatings that lower electricity bills and reduce heat exposure. Alongside this, it is pioneering affordable heat insurance that automatically pays out for lost income when dangerous temperatures stop people working, providing immediate financial support without imposing the burden of proof onto families. The Mahila Housing Trust (MHT) creates climate resilience for the urban poor through working at household, settlement and city levels to ensure lasting impact. Through increasing demand for solar reflective paint, the number of companies supplying the paint has nearly tripled with the cost reducing by a 10th, increasing accessibility and affordability and take up through the community.

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Mahindra Last Mile Mobility

Mother Earth Foundation is stopping ocean plastic at the source by building zero waste systems and advocating for fair pay for the waste workers that have diverted up to 89% of household waste from landfill in the Philippines. Rather than importing complex technology, the Foundation works city by city to build community-run Materials Recovery Facilities, allowing households to sort biodegradable, recyclable and residual waste at the source. Education works alongside, helping communities understand why sorting their waste matters, and how to do it. This approach benefits both urban and coastal areas and in the City Government of San Fernando, Pampanga, this has kept up to 89% of household waste out of landfill.  Crucially, the Foundation's model offers dignity and stable pay to the informal waste workers who do the bulk of the region's recycling, formalising their status and improving their livelihoods. 

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Niue Ocean Wide Trust

Turning the cost of ocean protection into a 20-year plan the world can invest in. Niue Ocean Wide Trust protects the whole of Niue's ocean territory — an area roughly the size of Vietnam, with 40% set aside as fully protected zones where no fishing is allowed. Since this protection began, fish numbers have grown by 60% and larger predators like sharks and tuna by 45%, between 2023 and 2026. Instead of relying on one-off grants or donations, Niue calculated the true cost of looking after its ocean for the next 20 years, bringing people, companies, governments and philanthropists around the world together to fund it directly — securing not temporary aid, but a lasting instrument for its ocean's protection. What Niue has built for one ocean territory, every Pacific Island Forum state and small island developing nation now has a blueprint to build for their own — a model with the potential to safeguard entire oceans, and the momentum a global tipping point for sustainable ocean management

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PFAS Free France

A world-first national legislative framework to phase out non-essential "forever chemicals" (PFAS), shifting global manufacturing and retail supply chains toward toxic-free, planet-safe alternatives.

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Pula

Pula has supported 24 Million farmers across Africa to face the climate crisis, using insurance to secure and increase access to incomes and food, enabling farmers to create livelihoods where they are and not be forced to migrate. Pula focuses on enabling data driven decisions to enhance agricultural productivity; combining satellite data with ground-level measurements. Pula protects smallholder farmers by using digital technology and satellite data to automate climate insurance. They bundle insurance directly into existing farm inputs like seeds and fertilizer so farmers are covered automatically. By monitoring regional yields instead of assessing individual farms, they can pay out claims quickly and transparently. This scalable approach builds financial resilience against extreme weather across emerging markets.

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Satellites on Fire

Satellites on Fire is an AI-powered wildfire detection platform that combines satellite imagery and real-time data to identify fires within minutes of ignition. By enabling faster response, it helps protect forests, biodiversity and communities while reducing the environmental and economic impacts of wildfires. The platform monitors more than 56 million hectares across 20+ countries, helping shift wildfire management from reaction to prevention. Satellites on Fire combines AI, satellite imagery, lightning detection and predictive fire modelling to identify wildfire ignitions and assess their potential spread in near real time. The platform delivers instant alerts through multiple channels, enabling governments, land managers, conservation organisations and businesses to respond quickly and prevent small fires from becoming large-scale disasters.

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South Korea Zero Waste Movement Network

South Korea Zero Waste Movement Network has set a global precedent, building the world’s most replicable model for cutting food waste at scale. Over three decades, it has connected more than 180 organisations, helping shape South Korea’s landfill ban and pay-as-you-waste fee system, working with government and companies including Samsung Electronics and food delivery platform Baemin. The system starts at home. Households separate food waste from general rubbish and, in many areas, pay for it by weight – a direct incentive to waste less. In cities including Seoul, smart bins weigh the waste, identify the user by card and calculate the charge automatically. Food waste that can’t be prevented is turned into compost, animal feed or biogas, instead of being buried in landfill, where it releases methane. The system now recycles around 95% of South Korea’s food waste, up from just 2% in 1995, a transformation estimated to have saved the country around US $3 billion.

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Yellowstone to Yukon (Y2Y)

Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative reconnects a 2,100-mile mountain landscape across Canada and the US, helping grizzly bears, wolves and caribou move freely again while protecting one of Earth’s last truly intact wild ecosystems. It brings together Indigenous Nations, governments, scientists, communities and industry across the 2,100-mile landscape, pairing land protection with practical fixes: wildlife overpasses and underpasses let animals cross roads safely, while conservation agreements keep migration routes open. In Banff, these measures have cut hooved wildlife-vehicle collisions by 96%. Since 1993, protected areas across the region have grown by more than 80%, twice the rate of the rest of North America. Yellowstone to Yukon and its more than 800 partners have helped protect around 25 million hectares, an area larger than the United Kingdom, and supported more than 200 wildlife crossings.

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ZEMBA

ZEMBA unites nearly 50 of the world’s major cargo owners, including Amazon, IKEA and Nike, into a single alliance that makes binding, multi-year commitments to zero-emission shipping, giving shipping companies the confidence to invest in cleaner vessels and fuels. Rather than waiting for policy or regulation, ZEMBA runs competitive procurement tenders where members commit upfront to buy zero-emission shipping. That gives shipping companies the confidence to invest in low-emission vessels and new fuel supply chains, spreading cost and risk across the alliance. Co-founded in 2023 by the Aspen Institute Energy and Environment Program, ZEMBA is now an initiative of the Center for Green Market Activation (GMA). Its first two tenders are expected to cut at least 200,000 metric tonnes of CO2e in container shipping between 2026 and 2031, with a third tender launch targeted for 2027.

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Circ

Circ recycles polycotton waste into new textile materials. Circ's proprietary process separates polyester and cellulose from blended polycotton textile waste to produce virgin-quality recycled polyester and man-made cellulosic fibers for the existing supply chain and global brands.

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d.light: Off-Grid Solar & Clean Energy Access at Scale

d.light is a global, mission-driven for-profit business making transformative, sustainable products universally available and affordable for low-income families across Sub-Saharan Africa and India. Founded in 2006 out of Stanford's Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, d.light is the global leader in off-grid solar energy. Through innovative clean-energy products, a leading last-mile distribution network, and proprietary pay-as-you-go (PayGo) technology, we accelerate access to affordable, reliable energy. Our portfolio spans solar lanterns, home systems, TVs, productive-use appliances and clean-cooking solutions, unified by our proprietary Atlas platform. Operating in 70+ countries, d.light has sold 52M+ solar products cumulatively, reached ~210M lives, and avoided 43M metric tons of CO2. In 2025 the company reached 200M lives alongside its strongest financial performance in company history. Our goal is to transform 1 billion lives, in alignment with UN SDG 7.

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Low Carbon Materials

Low Carbon Materials is driving the essential shift toward a truly sustainable and technically superior built environment. Our mission is to protect the planet from the cost of building. We directly tackle construction's CO2 crisis with a proprietary range of carbon-sequestering material additives. These solutions integrate seamlessly into existing construction supply chains, eliminating the need for disruptive CAPEX investment or process overhauls.

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Green Spot Technologies

Green Spot Technologies is a French deep-tech food biotech unlocking the value nature already holds. Founded in 2018 and led by Ninna Granucci (PhD), it runs Ferment'Up®, a proprietary solid-state fermentation platform using filamentous fungi to upcycle agricultural side-streams — starting with fava bean husks — into clean-label, functional ingredients at industrial scale. Its flagship is Milatea, "La Nouvelle Gourmandise": a confectionery alternative ingredient brand built on fermented Féverolat®. Naturally cocoa-brown with a roasted, chocolate-adjacent taste, it works alongside cocoa — from partial hybrids through to full replacement — giving manufacturers a clean-label, palm-free, made-in-France answer to a volatile cocoa market. Available as powder, baking chips, filling and spread, Milatea is Green Spot's commercial proof point, with paying B2B customers across bakery, pastry and foodservice — showing how one low-value by-product becomes a high-value ingredient.

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NatureMetrics

NatureMetrics was founded in 2014 to make biodiversity measurable at scale, in order to underpin global goals and accelerate finance into nature. Since then we have developed the world’s most advanced nature intelligence platform and reporting solution, grounded in over a decade of proprietary eDNA data. Our complete end-to-end stack combines ground-truth data, remote monitoring and AI-powered modelling to turn raw biological data into finance grade, board-ready metrics. This layer transforms our scientific capability into a scalable, high-margin, subscription-based data solution and our insights not only allow investors, regulators and over 600 clients to confidently measure and report on nature, but also to identify nature-related risk and dependencies in their portfolios. Backed by an in-house team consisting of over 30 PhD ecologists and scientists, we operate in over 100 countries and have detected more than 18,000 species.

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Aquacycl Inc.

Aquacycl provides an industrial wastewater treatment platform that helps companies reduce operational costs, mitigate climate impacts, and support healthy watersheds and communities worldwide. Aquacycl products and services guarantee permit compliance, greenhouse gas mitigation, reliable performance in variable production environments, and operational savings. Customers working with Aquacycl, including many of the world’s largest bottling groups, have realized a return on investment that is less than 24 months, and over 100 tons of GHG emissions mitigated per month at a single site. With growing global demand, Aquacycl has expanded into Europe with Aquacycl Netherlands, B.V., strengthening its ability to support multinational clients. The company is transforming the treatment of challenging industrial wastewater in food and beverage, chemical, pharmaceutical, chip manufacturing, and petrochemical industries, addressing a serviceable market opportunity approaching $100B.

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Belterra Agroflorestas

Belterra Agroflorestas is a Brazilian impact company that develops and implements Agroforestry Systems (AFS) to restore degraded land, remove carbon from the atmosphere, and strengthen rural economies. Operating across the Amazon and the Atlantic Forest—one of the world's most important biodiversity hotspots—Belterra connects smallholder farmers, landowners, carbon markets, commercial buyers, financial institutions, and investors through an integrated productive restoration model. Since 2020, the company has contracted more than 4,000 hectares for restoration, directed over BRL 4.8 million in payments to partner farmers, and generated direct impact for more than 7,000 people across five Brazilian states. Belterra demonstrates that restoration can deliver measurable environmental, social, and economic outcomes while becoming a scalable and commercially viable investment opportunity.

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Keep IT Cool

Keep IT Cool provides proximate refrigerated cooling boxes and transport to smallholder fishers and farmers in East Africa. Their end-to-end cold chain logistics solution matches fish and poultry supply to the demand of rural and urban customers. Keep IT Cool has impacted over 250,000 livelihoods and increased economic opportunities for more than 64,000 people.

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ATS Energy

The world’s first solid-state generator converting waste heat to clean power. ATS Energy converts industrial waste heat, a large and underutilized energy source, into low-cost, on-site electricity. Its solid-state generator has no moving parts, enabling reliable, behind-the-meter deployment with minimal integration and no disruption to existing operations. A 2024 Earthshot Prize winner, ATS is entering commercialization through standardized, repeatable applications such as turbines and compressor stations. These use cases enable scalable deployment across industrial sectors and are supported by strong unit economics that do not rely on subsidy. Through an energy-as-a-service model, ATS provides immediate cost savings and emissions reduction to customers, while transforming existing waste heat into a scalable source of distributed clean power.

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SOLshare

SOLshare is a green utility company building a global network of smart, distributed solar PV and storage assets at the nexus of energy and transport — putting more money into the pockets of Bangladesh's 6 million electric three-wheeler (E3W) drivers today. Our smart battery technology makes these mobile assets bankable, opening access to reliable lithium-ion power for a population largely locked out of formal finance. We are building the Rickshaw Virtual Power Plant, Bangladesh's first AI-driven VPP, with the potential to buffer up to 40% of the country's peak grid load. Through RIDEfree, SOLshare's driver proposition, VPP grid revenue is designed to cover a driver's full daily charging cost — so drivers keep every taka they earn while riding on 100% solar power. This is a critical piece of the journey to net-zero, and if we can do it here in Bangladesh, we can do it anywhere.

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MYCL

MYCL cleverly solves two problems at once – buying crop waste before it’s burnt, thus giving farmers a source of extra income. They then create an innovative alternative to leather that can be used in many other sectors, from clothes and shoes to cars to furniture. MYCL grows mycelium in small labs near crop waste sources, minimising transportation and accompanying emissions. MYLEA can be grown on different crop wastes, such as rice and cocoa, adding to scalability of the solution.

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The Great Bubble Barrier

The Great Bubble Barrier is a Dutch social enterprise, founded in 2017, which developed an effective technology to stop plastic pollution in rivers before it flows into our oceans, using bubbles. Our Bubble Barrier technology captures plastic across the entire width and depth of rivers, operates 24/7, and does not disrupt regular river activities.

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GRST

GRST makes the materials which make lithium-ion batteries free of toxic PFAS Forever Chemicals and water-recyclable.

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Coastal 500

Coastal 500, supported by Rare, is the largest global network of local government leaders committed to protecting coastal communities and ecosystems. Together, they drive behavior change and collective action for sustainable fisheries and ocean conservation.

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Kheyti

Kheyti is building the pathway that makes climate adaptation technologies and expert cultivation advisory accessible to millions of India's smallholder farmers. For decades, these solutions remained within reach of commercial farms alone. Kheyti brings together the evidence, policy, public financing, and market ecosystem needed to make climate adaptation affordable and accessible at smallholder scale. By enabling governments and markets to adopt and deliver proven solutions, it is establishing climate adaptation as essential public infrastructure for the farmers most exposed to climate change.

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Coral Vita

Coral Vita grows resilient coral in months instead of decades to restore dying reefs. Using a mission-based commercial model, Coral Vita sells restoration as a service (RaaS) to reef-dependent customers, licenses proprietary tech, and relocates coral from development zones to fund ecosystem-scale impact and preserve coral reefs for future generations. Since 2022, Coral Vita has grown over 150,000 coral across 52 species across seven countries and territories - including The Bahamas, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates - with impact ranging from 96.6% coral survivorship to double fish life populations to hiring more than 50% of staff from local communities. It was the inaugural winner of Prince William's Revive Our Oceans Earthshot Prize, its BrainCoral tech suite was named one of TIME Magazine's Best Inventions of 2025, and it raised the world's first-ever Series A for a coral restoration company (led by Lukas Walton's Builders Vision).

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Build Up Nepal

Build Up Nepal revolutionises house building with a low-carbon and cost-effective alternative to coal-fired bricks; supporting entrepreneurs and helping communities live safely in affordable, disaster-resilient homes.

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