During a conversation at New York’s Plaza Hotel, the prince helped announce a new round of finalists and hailed the success already achieved by a handful of 2022 winners.
across the prize’s five categories . The five winners will be announced at a ceremony in Singapore on November 7, and each will take home 1 million British pounds of prize money.António Guterresthe president of Ecuador, the theme of William’s two-day trip to New York City is helping environmental solutions scale up to the magnitude of the climate crisis.
Prince William shakes hands with former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg during the second Earthshot Prize Innovation Summit in New York City on September 19, 2023.The event began with an address from Bloomberg, who broke the ice by emphasizing how much respect Americans have for William, referencingnaming the prince as the nation’s most popular figure. “The prince has clearly won over Americans of all stripes.
and Queen Elizabeth II in building an environmental legacy, and remembered the prize’s earliest days. “When the prince first mentioned the creation of this prize, I was glad to come on board as an adviser and its first financial supporter, because I knew back then that once word got out, a lot of people would want to get involved, including our environmental team at Bloomberg Philanthropies,” he said. “The Earthshot is not about yesterday. It is about today and tomorrow.
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