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The Earth Prize is an environmental sustainability prize for secondary education students awarded by The Earth Foundation. The Earth Prize will be first awarded in March 2022. The winner will receive USD 100,000, which will then be split between the members of the winning team and their school or educational program. Three runner-up finalists will be rewarded with USD 25,000 each for their schools or educational programs.

Background
The Earth Prize was originally conceived and organized by the World Environmental Education Congress (WEEC) network, led by Professor Mario Salomone, in collaboration with the Municipality of Luino on Lake Maggiore, Italy. From 2018 until 2020, the prize was awarded to individuals, organizations, and projects that protected and enhanced landscapes and environmental resources.

At the end of 2020, The Earth Foundation in Geneva, Switzerland took responsibility for the prize and transformed it into a global environmental sustainability competition for students between the ages of 13 and 19 in which participants propose ideas to solve different environmental problems.

The Earth Prize Adjudicating Panel
The judges in charge of selecting the winner and runners-up of the competition’s first edition, called The Earth Prize Adjudicating Panel, are:
 * Rina Kupferschmid-Rojas, current Chief Sustainability Officer at Fidelity Investments and former Global Head of Sustainable Investing at UBS Wealth Management.
 * Kisum Chan, founder of the social enterprise Rice Inc. and 2018 winner of the Hult Prize.
 * Steven Monfort, former John and Adrienne Mars Director of the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute.
 * Thakur S. Powdyel, former Minister of Education of Bhutan.
 * Karen Wilson, founder of GV Partners and Associate Fellow at the Said Business School at the University of Oxford.