Friendship’s holistic approach recognised for the most prestigious environmental prize
By Friendship News Desk,
4 October, 2025
As the world edges closer towards a more perilous present than ever, people from all over the planet are striving to adapt and innovate to preserve the future. The Earthshot Prize was founded by HRH Prince William of the United Kingdom in 2020 to tackle the most important climate issues by 2030. The Earthshot Prize Finalists are climate leaders from every corner of the globe and every kind of organisation.
Inspired directly by former US president John F. Kennedy’s famous “Moonshot” project, which united people to achieve the goal of landing a man on the moon. The Earthshot Prize aims to inspire optimism and mobilise decades of action for the planet by identifying and supporting groundbreaking leadership and cutting-edge solutions in five key areas. They represent the most ambitious and inspiring solutions to the planet’s greatest challenges across five Earthshots—categories within which each competing organisation is classified, depending on the areas of their work. Friendship has been nominated as a finalist in the “Fix Our Climate” Earthshot category.
This Earthshot focuses on three main areas of interest:
- Creating an equitable clean energy future
- Addressing non-CO2 greenhouse gas emissions
- Decarbonising hard-to-abate sectors
Friendship’s holistic, integrated approach puts communities front and centre, giving them agency and voice in sustainable, nature-based solutions. In fact, Friendship’s four commitments—saving lives, poverty alleviation, climate adaptation and empowerment address all 17 Sustainable Development Goals; each sector working together to uplift the lives, livelihoods and opportunities of the communities it works directly with. Each is a necessary pillar, one supporting the other to give people from remote, rural Bangladesh dignity and hope.
Friendship’s holistic approach unites nature, innovation, and human development to give vulnerable communities the right tools to fix the climate. From floating hospitals and plinth villages to mangrove restoration and women-led enterprises, each intervention reinforces the other to create a living network of resilience.
By integrating health, education, climate action, sustainable economic development, inclusive citizenship and cultural preservation, Friendship ensures that people are not only protected from the impacts of climate change but are empowered to become active agents of change. This interconnected model proves that climate solutions must be systemic, inclusive, and community-led to endure.
The mangrove afforestation programme stands out as a scalable, nature-based solution that simultaneously restores biodiversity, protects vulnerable coastlines, supports livelihoods, and acts as one of the planet’s most powerful carbon sinks—with mangrove forests capable of sequestering five to eight times more carbon than other terrestrial forests.
The Earthshot finalists are proof that the solutions humanity needs already exist, that change is happening now, and that with the right backing, these breakthroughs can spread at speed and scale.
Being named a finalist is far more than an accolade — it marks entry into a global ecosystem of climate innovation. This prestigious prize offers international visibility, strategic support, and privileged access to a network of partners, investors, and decision-makers. For organisations like Friendship, this recognition enables a locally rooted, community-led model to gain global traction and be positioned as a reference in climate resilience and adaptation. The Earthshot Prize acts as a powerful accelerator, turning proven solutions into drivers of change at scale.
The winners of the 2025 Earthshot Prize will be announced on November 5 in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.
