The future king has joined forces with New York’s former mayor to issue an urgent plea about the state of the planet. Last year William launched the Earthshot Prize in a bid to come up with global solutions to climate change.

Writing in USA Today, Prince William and Mr Bloomberg speak of how significant moments of innovation, like the moon landing push by former US President John F. Kennedy, “united millions of people around a highly ambitious goal, and it inspired a generation of scientists and engineers, who accelerated our technological progress.”

Building on this analogy, they say: “An hour of change and challenge is upon us again, but this time the question isn’t whether we can reach the moon. It’s whether we can save the Earth.”

In the article William and Michael, who is the UN’s special envoy on climate and a global advisor to the winners of William’s Earthshot Prize, write: “We see an incredible new global wave of innovators and entrepreneurs turning crises into opportunities, developing breakthrough solutions that can regenerate our planet while stimulating livelihoods.

“It’s an unseen movement that we are determined will become a powerful engine behind a new growth economy, and a new, better way of life for all. 

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“The Earthshot Prize will award five, 1 million-pound ($1.37 million U.S. dollars) prizes each year for the next 10 years to these inspiring innovators and pioneers, providing at least 50 solutions to the world’s greatest environmental problems by 2030.”

Kensington Palace shared a teaser clip to a series about the prize last week in a tweet that read: “We’re very excited that our new five-part series ‘The Earthshot Prize: Repairing our Planet’ will be out from 3rd October 2021.

“You will be able to watch on @BBC, @BBCiPlayer and  @discoveryplus from 3rd Oct, Calendar, with a premiere on 16th October for US audiences on @Discovery.”

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