Launched by Prince William and Sir David Attenborough, the Earthshot Prize is the world’s most prestigious environmental award, dedicated to accelerating groundbreaking solutions that can repair and regenerate our planet.
Each year, five winners - one per Earthshot- are awarded £1 million to scale their innovations and drive real climate impact. The Prize Council, led by Prince William, searches the world for the most promising environmental solutions with the potential to create transformative change on a global scale.
Developed in collaboration with leading environmental experts, the Earthshots are: Protect and Restore Nature; Clean our Air; Revive our Oceans; Build a Waste-Free World; and Fix our Climate.
Read more about the Earthshot Prize here.
And read more about how Nium's clean ammonia is an Archimedes Lever for reducing emissions here.
We are incredibly proud and excited to be in the Nominations for the 2025 Earthshot Prize. When we founded Nium, a company with a mission to eliminate emissions, we aspired to be recognised by Earthshot, so this is a dream come true for our small team. We have worked hard to get this nomination and are grateful to all the nominees and supporters who put us here.
Lewis Jenkins, CEO and Co-Founder of Nium
Massive thank you to our investors and backers: Carbon13, AgFunder, DCVC, Octopus Ventures, BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt , H2UB, Undaunted: Tackling climate change with innovation, Imperial College London, Cambridge Judge Business School, QBE Insurance with Leading Cities, Innovate UK, RootCamp - A SpinLab Company, and RMI Third Derivative.
But this nomination wouldn’t have been possible without the incredibly special team we have built at Nium.
So, last but definitely not least, a massive thank you to our incredible team:
The Founders
Yubiao Niu, CSO
Phil Hunter, COO
Lewis Jenkins, CEO
The Team
Alex Dale, Legal
Aman Verma, Mechanical Engineer
Claudia Luiza Manfredi Gasparovic, Industrial Ecology
Hannah van Niekerk, Lead Process Engineer
Henry Hoddinott, R&D Nanotechnology
Joe Were, Commercial
Keith Ajagun-Brauns, Special Projects
Kerry McLaughlin, Grants
Leo Leung, R&D Chemistry
Luchao Liu, R&D Materials Science
Marie Foster, Communications
Matthew Ryans, Finance
Rim Abid, Projects
Rosalind Eyles FCA, Finance
Ross Griffin, R&D Nanoscale Physics
Theo Pavloudis, R&D Theoretical Physics
