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The Ashden Awards accelerate climate solutions creating a fairer, healthier and more prosperous world.
This year, to mark our 25th anniversary, Ashden recognised four past champions with Outstanding Achievement Awards. These awards recognise their extraordinary growth and impact since their first win.
We are also gave two Breaking Barriers Awards to younger organisations, whose inclusive solutions are poised to create dramatic impact. In addition to the benefit from the publicity, validation and connections an Ashden Award brings, our Global South winner received a £25,000 and our UK winner received £15,000.
Applications for the 2026 awards are now open and will close 8 Dec. Find out how to apply in the link below.
2025 Ashden Award for Outstanding Achievement (Global South)
For 25 years, the Ashden Awards have accelerated climate solutions that support better lives today, as well as a safer and fairer future. Since their inception, our awards have brought recognition and credibility to innovators – connecting them with key audiences, including funders and investors.
Our initial focus was charging up access to affordable clean energy. Over time we have broadened our scope to areas such as sustainable buildings and transport, school decarbonisation, and safeguarding nature for people and planet.
Within a decade of giving our first awards, we established programmes bringing further support and opportunity to our winners. Since then, our awards and programmes have worked together to accelerate individual organisations, and to secure the policy and finance shifts needed by them and their peers.
We gave two Breaking Barriers Awards to innovative climate solutions that are not previous winners of an Ashden Award.
Our UK Breaking Barriers Award focuses on local energy innovation. Our Global South Breaking Barriers Award follows the same three focus areas as the Global South Outstanding Achievement Award.
Our Breaking Barriers awards promote innovation that is inclusive – bringing benefits to low-income and marginalised communities – and holistic, addressing multiple challenges and barriers. These awards boost innovation that is market- or enterprise-led, with the potential to be quickly replicated or scaled up.
Two of our four Outstanding Achievement Awards were given to past winners working in the Global South, and two to those working in the UK.
The annual Ashden Awards boost outstanding, inclusive climate innovation. Panels of expert judges have a key role in the process – examining the entries, interviewing the people behind them, and debating who should be honoured with a prize.
We’d like to thank the fantastic judges helping us this year. They include academics, investors, experts from civil society, journalists, business leaders, and many others. You can see a full list at the bottom of this post.
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For 25 years, the Ashden Awards have boosted organisations tackling climate change and building a better world.
Whether they’re bringing clean power to villages and refugee camps, or nourishing and restoring nature, our winners work with communities to deliver inclusive solutions. So our impact is even more than lower emissions: it’s good green jobs and stronger societies too.
As a sponsor of the 2026 awards you will be linking your organisation with some of the world’s most exciting climate innovators. Your support will be celebrated at our high-profile ceremony in London next summer with an influential audience of climate experts, journalists and policymakers.
If you share our passion for a greener, fairer future, we invite your organisation to support the 2026 awards.
We’ve helped past winners and finalists earn investment and global media coverage, and connect with policymakers, partners and funders. The Ashden Awards are free to enter, and offer a cash prize of up to £25,000. We’re proud to create opportunities for our innovators years after their award win, through the Ashden network.
Entries for this year’s awards are now closed, but you can already register your interest for our 2024 prizes.
Our policy work creates opportunities for proven climate solutions, including those discovered through our awards, to thrive. Insights gathered through the awards give us a unique and valuable perspective on tackling the biggest climate challenges.
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