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Prince William at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco
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Prince William made a solo appearance at the Monaco Blue Economy and Finance forum on Sunday, June 8
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The future king gave a speech alongside the world leaders before the United Nations Ocean Conference 2025
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His appearance occurs while his father, King Charles, continues the treatment of cancer and William deepens his role as a world statesman
Prince William Make a high -level solo appearance in Monaco on June 8, highlighting its growing role as a world of world state.
On the eve of World Ocean Day, Prince William took its global environmental mission – offering a high -level speech In Monaco alongside world leaders and other members of the royal family to fight the urgent threat to marine life.
Appearing at the Blue Economy and Finance Forum on June 8, the Prince of Wales, 42 President Emmanuel MacronCostarate President Rodrigo Chaves Robles, and Prince Albert from Monaco, whose place of the Gimaldi forum organized the event.
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Prince William and Prince Albert II of Monaco at Blue Economy and Finance Forum (BEFF)
The event marked a key moment in the period before the conference of the 2025 OCEAN and underlined the amount of William’s diplomatic profile on the international scene.
The appearance comes as King Charles Continue treatment of cancer, William increasingly entering the spotlight. Like his father, the Prince of Wales is a long-standing curator and a defender passionate about the environment, which makes the protection of the oceans a natural adjustment for its increasing global platform.
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With oceans covering 70% of the surface of the earth, generating half of its oxygen and feeding by more than 3 billion people, William stressed that the protection of marine biodiversity is not a niche problem – it is a global imperative. However, only 3% of the ocean is currently protected, far from the objective of protecting 30% of land and the sea by 2030.
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Prince William and Prince Albert II of Monaco
For the prince, the optimism that something can be done – and is underway – is just as important as to highlight threats to the marine environment.
Its decade Earthshot prize, which will be Next place in Rio de Janeiroaims to highlight and highlight practical environmental solutions – and several past finalists joined him in Monaco to share their progress.
Among them was Coral Vita, the winner of Earthshot 2021 for his work restaurant Les Récifs Corallien By pushing the coral on earth and replanting it in the ocean. The organization cultivated more than 100,000 corals out of 52 species. The seas virgins, also a finalist in 2021, have since contributed to protecting three vast sea areas – totaling a region the size of Germany – in partnership with Aboriginal communities and governments.
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Prince William speaking to an official after arriving at Blue Economy and Finance Forum (BEFF)
The appearance of Monaco one day came after the Kensington Palace released a short film from William’s recent conversation with the legendary conservationist Sir David Pantalwho returns this month with a new documentary, Ocean with David attentBorough. At 99, the famous broadcaster continues to inspire the action – and his exchange with William adds another layer to the growing role of the prince in the education of votes and environmental solutions.
While William is built towards the fifth year of Earthshot, his efforts show a thorough commitment not only to raise awareness – but to push politics, financing and innovation towards a lasting future for the most vulnerable ecosystems on the planet.
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