Prince of Wales to attend Earthshot Prize Innovation Summit in New York
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he Prince of Wales will journey to the US to attend the Earthshot Prize Innovation Summit, the place the 2023 finalists of his environmental awards shall be named.
William will fly to New York for a two-day go to in September for plenty of occasions together with the summit, the place the 15 options to “repair the planet” shall be unveiled.
The inheritor to the throne was because of attend the inaugural summit, held final yr in New York, however was unable to journey because the royal household have been observing royal mourning following the demise of Queen Elizabeth.
The Earthshot Prize goals to find and scale-up groundbreaking options to restore the planet and £1 million in prize cash shall be introduced to the winners in 5 classes, or Earthshots – Protect and restore nature; Clean our air; Revive our oceans; Build a waste-free world; and Fix our local weather.
Singapore will host the third awards ceremony in November, after prize-giving occasions have been staged in Boston final yr and London’s Alexandra Palace in 2021.
William will start his official journey on September 18, and the summit, which is going down throughout New York Climate Week and the 78th Session of the UN General Assembly, shall be held the next day.
It will carry collectively earlier Earthshot Prize winners and finalists with policymakers, international enterprise leaders, philanthropists and local weather activists to scale their revolutionary options.
Former New York mayor and enterprise news mogul Mike Bloomberg, a worldwide adviser to Earthshot Prize winners, will give a speech on the occasion.