Prince William announces the next location of Earthshot prices prices

For its fifth iteration, Prince William’s Earthshot prices will go to a new continent – South America and Brazil, in particular.

The Prince of Pays de Wales announced on April 3 that the annual award ceremony would go to Rio de Janeiro after previous stops in London in 2021, in Boston in 2022, in Singapore in 2023 and in CAP, in South Africa in 2024. William’s commitment to environmentalism.

The prices of 2025 will take place in November, with the decision of Rio taken to bring “a new momentum for new ideas”, The telegraph reported. The Earthshot Prize Awards will take place the same month that Brazil welcomes the Non Climate Change Summit COP30.

Although it is not confirmed at the moment if William’s wife, Kate Middleton, will join him for the trip – when she was assisted in London and Boston, she jumped Singapore and Cape Town – William is “almost guaranteed to attend”, according to The telegraph.

“2025 marks the point halfway through the decade of Terrehot, and each year we witnessed the remarkable power of human ingenuity to meet the most urgent challenges of our planet,” he said on Thursday.

“While we put the Earthshot prize in Brazil, a nation rich in biodiversity and environmental innovation, we see a new momentum for new ideas to create healthier and safer ways of living our life,” continued William. “It is an honor to profile people who make our world a better place for us and for our children.”

William founded the Earthshot Prize to find ideas to repair the planet, with five winners awarded 1 million sterling pounds per year in the categories of nature protection and restoration, cleaning our air, relaunching our oceans, building a world without waste and repairing our climate.

A certain number of famous supporters of Earthshot like Cate Blanchett, Hannah Waddingham, Billy Porter, Heidi Klum and David Beckham helped William to announce the last location, by People. Beckham, for his part, said prices going to Brazil that he is “so much, so excited”, calling the country a place “where nature and culture go hand in hand”.

“The world has so much to learn from people and communities in Brazil, by developing revolutionary solutions that stimulate innovation and creativity and unlock prosperity,” said Christiana Figueras, president of the board of directors of the Earthshot Prize. “In particular, we are delighted to highlight so many young people who actively grow through borders. These are the heroes of this story. ”

Speaking of young people, the children of William and Kate, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis, have not yet joined their father during a ceremony for the Earthshot awards ceremony. Last November in CAP, William explained why, saying that the media gathered for the 2024 ceremony (and by Good morning!), “Regarding the family, you will have to wait a little longer, because obviously, they are at school, and I think that has the priority about everything else.”