Kate Middleton: Monarchy ‘realise the power of Kate’ says pundit

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The Duke of Cambridge, 39, has urged people to take “decisive action” against climate change in a piece co-authored with the ex-New York Mayor and one-time candidate for US presidency Michael Bloomberg, 79.

The pair, who were writing for USA Today, compared the current struggle to curb climate change to the space race of the 1960s.

The Prince and ex-politician said: “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.”

Prince William, who helped establish the Earthshot Prize, also explained that his most recent endeavour had the backing of the Bezos Earth Fund, Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Jack Ma Foundation and the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation.

The Duke of Cambridge and Mr Bloomberg went on to call for the world to channel its entrepreneurial spirit and “unleash” new inventions to address the crisis.

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“It is a new call to action: to unleash and support a new generation of invention, innovation and entrepreneurship propelled by a shared sense of urgency to address the crisis at hand and optimism that humanity can achieve seemingly insurmountable goals,” they wrote.

The £50million Earthshot Prize, which was launched by the Duke of Cambridge in September, aims to promote solutions, ideas and technologies that will “repair the planet”.

The prize will run from 2021 until the end of the decade.

Each winner will receive £1million to fund their proposed solution.

The inaugural winners will be announced in London next month.

Mr Bloomberg, who has an estimated net worth of £46.3billion, has also joined William to assist his initiative.

The 79-year-old, who founded the financial data provider Bloomberg LP, will now become a global adviser to the winners of the prize.

Mr Bloomberg served as a Republican Mayor of New York from 2002 until 2013.

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In 2020, he decided to go one step further by throwing his hat in the ring for the US presidency.

Bloomberg, who was by this point a Democrat, finished in a distant fourth-place behind Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.

Following his defeat, Bloomberg handed £77.2million over to Mr Biden’s election campaign in a bid to defeat the then President Donald Trump.

Earlier this year, he was also appointed as the United Nations’ Special Envoy on Climate Ambition and Solutions.

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