Prince William’s Earthshot Prize: Hong Kong lithium battery start-up GRST wins US$1.2 million award
- The inventor of a water-based battery manufacturing and recycling technology will receive a £1 million (US$1.2 million) cash prize to help scale up its operations
- Accion Andina, WildAid Marine Program, S4S Technologies, and Boomitra were the other winners
GRST is the first company from Hong Kong or mainland China to win the prestigious award.
“With the development of a new way to build and recycle vital lithium-ion batteries, GRST’s solution offers a pathway to make the electric cars of the future even cleaner,” said an Earthshot Prize statement issued during the awards ceremony held in Singapore late on Tuesday. GRST was the winner in the “Clean Our Air” category.
Britain’s Prince William launched the Earthshot Prize in 2020 to search for and scale up the most innovative solutions to the world’s greatest environmental challenges by 2030.
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“The last year has been one of great change and even greater challenge,” Prince William said in the statement. “A year in which the effects of the climate crisis have become too visible to be ignored.”
