Hope Solutions & the Earthshot Prize celebrate five years of partnership driving sustainable global events

Hope Solutions, the sustainability consultancy working across the music and live events sector, is celebrating five years as a trusted partner to The Earthshot Prize.

Since the Prize’s launch in 2020 by HRH Prince William, Hope Solutions has supported the annual Awards Night and The Earthshot Prize Summit in host cities around the world.

“Working alongside The Earthshot Prize over the past five years has been a privilege. Each edition of the Awards Night presents a new set of challenges and opportunities. Together, I genuinely feel we’ve been able to push the boundaries of what sustainable global events can look like. Our shared focus has always been on practical solutions that leave a positive, impactful legacy.” –Luke Howell, Founder & Director of Hope Solutions, MSI CEnv FISEP

In its role as sustainability partner, Hope Solutions has worked closely with The Earthshot Prize and their event and broadcast partners  to map and engage stakeholders, train supply chains and production teams in sustainable event practices, collect, analyse and report on carbon impacts, and provide ongoing recommendations to reduce environmental footprints year on year. The partnership has also expanded to capture new areas of measurement, including social impact metrics for the first time in 2024.

“Each year we take The Earthshot Prize Awards Night to a new country. This brings with it a new set of challenges to make the Awards broadcast as sustainable and low impact as possible, while working within the confines of each geography. Since year one Hope Solutions have worked with us as a trusted partner, training our delivery partners, providing guidance on how to minimise our impact while still growing our ambition, and supporting us to track and report our footprint. Luke and the team provide invaluable support and expertise, ensuring that our Awards show continues to inspire millions while keeping our footprint low.” – Stephen Lavery, Senior Impact & Insights Manager at The Earthshot Prize

Each edition of The Earthshot Prize Awards Night has brought fresh challenges and opportunities for sustainable innovation.

In 2021, Hope Solutions supported the London ceremony produced by BBC Studios, which featured Coldplay’s bike-powered performance and went on to win a BAFTA. The following year, in Boston, the team delivered sustainability reporting across multiple stakeholders in one of the busiest global city settings and helped plant trees used on set in local parks and community spaces. In 2023, the scope expanded in Singapore to include the full Earthshot Week programme. In 2024, Cape Town saw the first South African production awarded Albert Certification, alongside the challenges of reducing the impact of temporary structures. In November this year – adjacent to COP30 – Hope Solutions will support the Rio de Janeiro event, providing carbon reporting and ongoing recommendations to strengthen Earthshot’s global sustainability strategy. Throughout the partnership, Hope Solutions have been able to tap into their solutions provider network – helping secure lower impact solutions in locations all over the world (not limited to cities where the awards took place).

Through this partnership, Hope Solutions has helped The Earthshot Prize Awards not only measure their event and engagement environmental impact but also build long-lasting sustainability knowledge among local suppliers and partners.

About Hope Solutions:

Hope Solutions is a specialist sustainability consultancy working at the forefront of climate action in the media, entertainment, music and cultural industries. Our goal is to empower organisations to take practical, meaningful steps towards a more sustainable future – from cutting emissions to embedding sustainability into the fabric of live events, media productions, global campaigns and the industry supply chain.

With decades of experience, a wide-reaching creative network and a clear, evidence-based approach, we’ve become trusted partners to some of the world’s most high-profile projects. Whether it’s supporting a global tour, shaping the strategy for a major broadcast, or helping a business navigate new regulations, we focus on delivering measurable impact.

Our team and services have also been recognised by leaders in the field including; Pollstar, Access All Areas, Society for the Environment (SocEnv), the ENDS Power List 2024, the Women in Green Business Awards, and the TPi Awards – where our founder Luke Howell sits on the Green Award judging panel – and MIT where members of our team co-created their ‘Climate Machine’ music industry sustainability advisory committee.

We believe that entertainment has a unique ability to inspire change. Our job is to make that change possible – with smart strategy, strong data and a deep understanding of how this industry works.

In short: don’t just entertain the world – change it.

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Founded by HRH Prince William and incubated in the The Royal Foundation in 2020 for a year before becoming an independent organisation, The Earthshot Prize is the world’s most prestigious and impactful award designed to identify, back and celebrate groundbreaking leadership in environmental action. Inspired by President John F. Kennedy’s Moonshot, which united millions of people around the goal of reaching the moon, The Earthshot Prize is designed to mobilise a decade of action for the planet. The five challenges are: Protect and Restore Nature; Clean Our Air; Revive Our Oceans; Build a Waste-Free World; and Fix Our Climate.

The Earthshot Prize aims to turn the current pessimism surrounding environmental issues into optimism by championing inspiring leadership and helping to scale incredible cutting-edge solutions. It will discover 50 Winners over 10 years with the power to repair the planet. More than an award, The Earthshot Prize works in partnership with a Global Alliance of Partners to support the scaling of the solutions discovered and selected each year.

The Global Alliance Founding Partners are a group of leading global organisations and philanthropists, which act as strategic funding partners to the Prize, including Aga Khan Development Network, AL Philanthropies, Allen Family Philanthropies, Bezos Earth Fund, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Breakthrough Energy Foundation, Builders Vision, Coleman Family Ventures, DP World, Elaine and Eduardo Saverin Foundation, Eleven Eleven Foundation, Giving Grousbeck Fazzalari, Holch Povlsen Foundation, Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, Rob Walton Foundation, Sandy and Paul Edgerley, Standard Chartered Bank, Stelios Philanthropic Foundation, Temasek Trust, and Uber.

Global Alliance Partners are non-profit environment and sustainable development organisations that bring expertise, global reach and serve as nominating organisations each year. For a full list of our Global Alliance Partners, visit: https://earthshotprize.org/people-partners/global-alliance/

Global Alliance Members are some of the world’s largest and most influential companies and brands that will support The Earthshot Prize, implement ambitious changes within their businesses and accelerate the advancement of the solutions of The Earthshot Prize Finalists and Winners. They are Arup, Bloomberg L.P., British Airways, Deloitte, Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer, Hitachi, Ingka Group (IKEA), Microsoft, The Multichoice Group, Natura &Co, Safaricom, Salesforce, Unilever, Vodacom Group, and Walmart.