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🌍 Call for Applications: ACIC 2024! 🚀 Are you an African innovator with a passion for climate solutions? The African Climate Innovation Challenge (ACIC) is now accepting applications for its 2024 edition! 🌱💡 This is your chance to showcase your climate innovations and drive change across the continent. 📅 Deadline: November 8, 2024 🔗 Apply Now: theacic.com Join us in shaping Africa's climate future! 🌍 #ACIC2024 #ClimateInnovation #InnovationForChange __________ 🌍 Appel à candidatures : ACIC 2024 ! 🚀 Vous-êtes un innovateur africain passionné par les solutions climatiques ? Le African Climate Innovation Challenge (ACIC) accepte maintenant les candidatures pour son édition 2024 ! 🌱💡 C’est votre chance de présenter vos innovations climatiques et de contribuer au changement à travers le continent. 📅 Date limite : 8 novembre 2024 🔗 Postulez maintenant : theacic.com Rejoignez-nous pour façonner l’avenir climatique de l’Afrique ! 🌍 #ACIC2024 Start.Up Lounge Africa 3 E's 4 Africa e.V. Global Resilience Partnership International Sustainable Chemistry Collaborative Centre (ISC3)

At #COP29, GAYO is hosting a vital discussion on JUST transformations of #food and water systems. Join us as we explore equitable approaches to enhance food security and community-led solutions for sustainable futures. #GAYOatCOP29 #COP29Azerbaijan 🌱 COP29 Azerbaijan Stockholm Resilience Centre Stockholm University GAYO Eco-Club Campus Chapters (GECCC) Green Africa Youth Organization (GAYO)-Uganda Green Africa Youth Organisation (GAYO)Botswana

The Earthshot Prize announced its five winners for 2024 at an award ceremony hosted and livestreamed from Cape Town, South Africa, on Nov. 6. The prize was dubbed “Planet Earth’s biggest celebration of climate creativity” at the start of the event. https://lnkd.in/da5Nm84g DESMOND Alugnoa Jacob Johnson Attakpah Clean Air Fund Bezos Earth Fund GAYO Eco-Club Campus Chapters (GECCC) Green Africa Youth Organization (GAYO)-Uganda Green Africa Youth Organisation (GAYO)Botswana

This achievement is not just a victory—it’s a call to action for cleaner air and a healthier planet. Let this milestone inspire us to push forward with even greater commitment to sustainable change. Thank you, MyJoyOnline for the story!” https://lnkd.in/dgcCxP-W The Earthshot Prize Clean Air Fund Bezos Earth Fund GAYO Eco-Club Campus Chapters (GECCC) Green Africa Youth Organization (GAYO)-Uganda Green Africa Youth Organisation (GAYO)Botswana DESMOND Alugnoa

Pure joy! If you need a reminder of just how creative, collaborative, caring and brilliant we humans can be, look no further than The Earthshot Prize. Huge congratulations to the 2024 winners, each one an incredible achievement already, and a thrilling vision for a sustainable future: 💚 Protect and Restore Nature Winner Altyn Dala Conservation Initiative Saving the critically endangered Saiga Antelope from extinction, and aiming to fully restore Kazakhstan's Golden Steppe grassland ecosystem. 💚 Clean Our Air Winner Green Africa Youth Organization (GAYO) An ambitious youth-led movement which rethinks and revolutionises how we manage waste and clean the air at the same time. 💚 Revive Our Oceans Winner The High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People A coalition of 120 countries which pushes governments to follow through with their biodiversity and ocean conservation pledges. 💚 Build a Waste-Free World Winner Keep IT Cool | Deliver while still fresh Smart solar-powered refrigeration services which dramatically reduce food waste and improve distribution for smallholder farmers and fishers across Africa. 💚 Fix Our Climate Winner Advanced Thermovoltaic Systems Game-changing technology that converts industrial waste heat into electricity, saving gigatonnes of CO2 and transforming energy use worldwide. I had the privilege of spending time not just with the winners and finalists but with many other young leaders in South Africa and I have come away truly humbled by the leadership and stubborn optimism I've seen. Young people with a clear vision of a regenerative world, willing to work and to fight for it, no matter what. Deep gratitude to you all. #EarthshotCapeTown

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Congratulations to The Earthshot Prize 2024 Winners whose efforts are helping tackle earth’s most pressing climate and environmental challenges!   Green Africa Youth Organization (GAYO), Winner for Clean Our Air   Advanced Thermovoltaic Systems, Winner for Fix Our Climate   Altyn Dala Conservation Initiative, Winner for Protect and Restore Nature   High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People, Winner for Revive Our Oceans   Keep IT Cool | Deliver while still fresh, Winner for Build a Waste-Free World   Discover their stories at The Earthshot Prize #EarthshotCapeTown   AKDN is proud to be a global alliance founding partner of the Prize.

The Earthshot Prize celebration last night in Cape Town was brilliant! Huge congratulations to the five winners who were awarded £1 million each to accelerate and scale their game-changing environmental solutions: • Fix Our Climate: Advanced Thermovoltaic Systems • Revive Our Oceans: High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People • Build a Waste-Free World: Keep IT Cool | Deliver while still fresh • Protect and Restore Nature: Altyn Dala Conservation Initiative • Clean Our Air: Green Africa Youth Organization (GAYO) We also salute the other finalists and are excited to see that the 2024 cohort has developed into a strong community of innovators who support and nurture each other. Prince William said it beautifully: “I believe our world can be rich in possibility, in hope, and in optimism. That is why The Earthshot Prize exists. To champion the game-changers, the inventors, the makers, the creatives, the leaders; to help them build upon the amazing things they’ve already achieved; to speed their innovations to scale and to inspire the next generation to create the future we all need." TRAFFIC is proud to serve as an official nominator for the prize and support the environmental leadership of The Royal Foundation of The Prince and Princess of Wales

We are so proud to be a core funder of the Clean Air Fund which is leveraging and amplifying the work of air quality and climate heroes across the world. Congratulations Green Africa Youth Organization (GAYO)!

Love thiis 💚🌍 William announces Earthshot winners in Cape Town, BBC https://lnkd.in/ee9bv3ku "Prince William closed the awards ceremony in Cape Town by calling for people around the world to join the "movement for change"." 2024 Earthshot Prize Winners https://lnkd.in/ei5_RZJ9 Protect and Restore Nature: Altyn Dala Conservation Initiative a project that has saved the critically endangered Saiga antelope from extinction in Kazakhstan Clean Our Air: Green Africa Youth Organization (GAYO) who use behavioural change to help communities clean up waste and build circular waste management infrastructure across Africa Revive Our Oceans: High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People an alliance of at least 119 countries with the ambitious goal to protect 30% of land and oceans by 2030 Build a Waste-free World: Keep IT Cool | Deliver while still fresh a Kenyan-based company using solar powered refrigeration to help cut harvest waste for farmers Fix Our Climate: Advanced Thermovoltaic Systems an American company that convert excess heat, produced during the making of steel or cement, into electricity "There was a focus on ideas from Africa for this year's Earthshot Prize, with more than 400 African-led projects nominated and another 350 linked to the continent. Although Africa generates the fewest emissions for global warming, many of its countries are among the most vulnerable to climate change." Dr. Kirimi Sindi , Ph.D Jacqui Dixon Thabang Selota Monica Longwe Dr Gwinyayi A Dzinesa Phuti Chelopo-Mgobozi, PhD (M.Inst.D) Lea Castro Rami Narte Andhi Susanto Javier Aguirre Salih Adewole Adio -MSc,CMIOSH,MIEMACEnv,TapRooT RCA T. Leader Justin Keeble MOHAMMAD ABDUL GHANI PATEL Dr. Samir Thabet Timo Márquez