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Innovating for Humanity
Newsletter - December 2025
This month's edition looks ahead to the upcoming Awards Ceremony, spotlights our travel series with a difference and features fresh insights from our Selection Committee on resilience and preventative health.
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| Inspiring Change, One Story at a Time |
| This month, the Prize launched a travel series like no other, sending four creators to four countries to witness the real-world impact of our winners. From India and Argentina to Thailand and Guatemala, each journey captures how innovative solutions are transforming communities on the ground, bringing these stories to life in ways that expand understanding, build connection and inspire audiences to care about what meaningful change looks like in practice.
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| Scaling Resilience Through Innovation |
| Dr. Arunabha Ghosh explores how India and South Asia are advancing resilience through decentralised clean energy, community-driven solutions, and strategic global partnerships. He highlights the economic opportunities that emerge when resilience is built directly into local and national planning. The piece also shows how platforms like the Zayed Sustainability Prize help proven, local innovations scale across regions.
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| Bringing Off-Grid Energy to Rwanda |
| Across Rwanda, off-grid solar is transforming access to clean, affordable energy through public-private partnerships and innovative delivery models. In a recent CNBC Africa feature, Zayed Sustainability Prize winners Bboxx and Ignite Power highlighted how renewable electrification is connecting underserved households, creating income opportunities and supporting rural communities. The story explores how scalable solar models are delivering impact on the ground, while Prize recognition has helped both companies expand operations, scale faster and reach more people.
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| Why Inclusive Development Starts With Women |
| In Episode 55 of Voices of Sustainability, Ajaita Shah, Founder and CEO of Frontier Markets, shares how inclusive entrepreneurship and digital innovation are unlocking opportunity across rural India. She explains how women-led business networks and data-driven platforms are transforming access to clean energy, essential goods and digital services at the last mile. Through her growing ‘Saheli’ network, Shah shows how solutions designed with — and for — local
women, can scale sustainably and deliver measurable impact. |
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| This Company Says It Can Fix The Food System’s Energy Problem |
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7 ways the tech sector can lead the nature-positive transition
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| Teaching AI Culture: What a Video Game Reveals About Values |
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