Prince William will be
heading to New York City later this year for the Earthshot Prize Innovation
Summit, which will take place on 21 September.
The Duke of Cambridge will be
joined by philanthropist and former mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg,
alongside finalists and winners from the first Earthshot Awards. The second
awards are scheduled to be held in Boston in December.
Speaking about the summit,
Michael said: “Accelerating the world’s climate progress requires us to
take urgent, ambitious action from every angle.
“As global leaders get
set to gather in New York, the Bloomberg team is working with our partners
Prince William and The Earthshot Prize to showcase the most innovative climate
solutions and help them spread more quickly.”
He added: “We’ve been
glad to support The Earthshot Prize from the beginning, and we look
forward to helping even more climate leaders get their promising ideas off the
ground.”
Further details about the
summit, and what else the Duke of Cambridge will be up to in America are due to
be announced at a later date.
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William is a keen environmentalist
The Earthshot Prize has been
inspired by President John F. Kennedy’s ‘Moonshot’ programme in the 1960s,
which urged millions of people to support the US space programme.
It is based on five
‘Earthshot’ goals: Protect and restore nature; fix our climate; clean our air;
revive our oceans and build a waste-free world.
Five £1 million prizes will be
awarded each year for the next ten years, providing at least 50 solutions to
the world’s greatest environmental problems by 2030.
