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The Prince of Wales arrived on an electric bus for an event about tackling climate change and protecting the environment, which was held at London’s Guildhall.<\/b><\/p>\n
On a meltingly hot day, Prince William told delegates, including London mayor Sir Sadiq Khan, about the importance of helping to “repair” the planet.<\/p>\n
Prince William was marking the impact of his Earthshot Prize, saying the ideas for solving environmental problems made him feel “more optimistic than ever”.<\/p>\n
But he said that when we have the evidence for what works in protecting the environment, “history will ask what we did with it”.<\/p>\n
The Earthshot Prize is a 10-year scheme launched in 2020 to find innovative ways of saving the planet, with \u00a31m in funding for five winners each year.<\/p>\n
Now the halfway mark has passed, Prince William told his audience there had been tangible achievements from the award-winning projects, including the equivalent of taking four million cars off the road, by cutting 18 million tonnes in emissions.<\/p>\n
There had been 85 million hectares of land, forests and rivers which had been “protected, restored and improved”.<\/p>\n
Future schemes would include improving battery life for green energy storage, developing farming techniques in India that would be resilient to a changing climate, and eco-friendly dyes and colours for the fashion industry.<\/p>\n
Speakers hailed the achievement of Khan’s administration in London in showing how a major city could reduce vehicle emissions.<\/p>\n
The mayor told the meeting, part of London Climate Action Week, about the damaging health impacts of air pollution.<\/p>\n
And Khan praised Prince William’s role, saying his involvement was “authentic… he really believes in this stuff”.<\/p>\n
Robert Irwin, conservationist and TV presenter, spoke of the need for both “urgency and optimism” in seeking to protect the environment.<\/p>\n
The Earthshot Prize’s chief executive, Jason Knauf, said that optimism might seem “jarring” when there was such division in the political arena about climate challenges.<\/p>\n
But he said that “despair and defeatism are mindsets we cannot afford”.<\/p>\n
Prince William said the “challenge can still feel immense”, but there were ideas for what could tackle it.<\/p>\n
“One day people will look back at this decade and ask: when the evidence was clear, what did we do with it?” William asked his audience.<\/p>\n
“When we saw forests being restored, did we help restoration spread? When we saw clean air policies working, did we help other cities follow?”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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