Prince William in Cape Town for Earthshot 2024 Celebrating Young Innovators
12 November 2024
The Prince of Wales visited Cape Town, South Africa for the fourth annual Earthshot Prize Awards Ceremony and the United For WIldlife Global Summit.
The Prince spent time with local communities and learn more about the innovation, entrepreneurship, and creativity which is being harnessed across Africa to tackle the environmental crisis. As part of ‘Earthshot Week’ in South Africa, The Prince took part in a series of events, spotlighting groundbreaking environmental solutions and bringing together world-leading innovators, investors and philanthropists to drive forward the restoration and protection of our planet.
The Prince of Wales’ first official visit to South Africa since 2010 and his first to Africa since 2018 when he visited Namibia, Tanzania and Kenya. It was during his 2018 trip that His Royal Highness was inspired to establish The Earthshot Prize.
Earthshot Prize 2024 winners
• Protect and Restore Nature: Altyn Dala Conservation Initiative, a project that has saved the critically endangered Saiga antelope from extinction in Kazakhstan
• Clean Our Air: Green Africa Youth Organization, who use behavioural change to help communities clean up waste and build circular waste management infrastructure across Africa
• Revive Our Oceans: High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People, an alliance of at least 119 countries with the ambitious goal to protect 30% of land and oceans by 2030
• Build a Waste-free World: Keep IT Cool, a Kenyan-based company using solar powered refrigeration to help cut harvest waste for farmers
• Fix Our Climate: Advanced Thermovoltaic Systems, an American company that convert excess heat, produced during the making of steel or cement, into electricity
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