The Earthshot Prize: Repairing Our Planet

Sir David Attenborough introduces us to inspiring people with solutions to help restore nature, and reveals the three finalists of the first ever Earthshot Prize for Nature.

Prince William, Sir David Attenborough and Christiana Figueres highlight inspiring and often unexpected solutions to the climate challenge.

Prince William, Sir David Attenborough and astronaut Naoko Yamazaki hear the personal stories of people who are directly affected by air pollution and look at possible solutions.

Prince William, David Attenborough and Shakira find out about inspiring people and projects across the world that can help us stop damaging the oceans and enable their revival.

Prince William, David Attenborough and Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim see how we might reimagine our production lines to solve the problem of the vast amount of waste we produce.

Prince William, founder of the Earthshot Prize, is joined by Prize Council members Sir David Attenborough and Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, an indigenous rights spokesperson from Chad, to explore the story of our wastefulness and how we might move to a waste-free world.

They reveal the extent of our careless approach to producing waste, both non-biodegradable and biodegradable, and discover that we can solve the waste problem by reimagining our production lines as materials circles, ensuring that the waste from one process becomes the resource for the next.

At the close of the episode, Prince William introduces the finalists for the first ever Earthshot Prize to Build a Waste-Free World, and he reflects on the entire series and the scale of the challenges that face us as a species.