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CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Prince William wore achromatic biodegradable sneakers arsenic he walked nan “green carpet” astatine his Earthshot Prize awards ceremony successful Cape Town connected Wednesday, nan centerpiece of a four-day environment-focused travel to South Africa by nan heir to nan British throne.
The Prince of Wales group up nan Earthshot Prize successful 2020 to thief entrepreneurs create their climate-friendly businesses and he took nan yearly awards ceremonial to Africa — nan continent wherever he conceived nan thought — for nan first clip this week.
“We want to make this nan decade successful which we toggle shape nan world for good, 1 solution astatine a time, from nan crushed up,” William said successful a reside connected shape successful a elephantine reusable dome that was put up for nan ceremonial adjacent Cape Town's harbor.
The Earthshot Prize, which William group up done his Royal Foundation, awarded $1.2 cardinal successful grants to 5 businesses for their sustainable, eco-friendly innovations. The winners included an American institution that developed exertion to usage power discarded from dense industries to make electricity, a Ghanaian statement that trains group to cod and negociate waste, and a Kazakhstan conservation group that is protecting a immense grassland and redeeming nan Saiga antelope from extinction.
William, wearing his no-plastic sneakers and a classical double-breasted grey blazer, said his Earthshot Prize was created “to champion nan dreamers, nan thinkers and nan innovators from each locomotion of life who stock an ambition to build a better, much sustainable world.”
The Earthshot Prize said it has raised astir $110 cardinal to support its projects.
William pulled successful immoderate prima power, pinch “America's Got Talent” judge Heidi Klum, Canadian exemplary Winnie Harlow and rapper Tobe Nwigwe, who has Nigerian heritage, presenting awards. Actor-singer Billy Porter was a co-host for nan evening.
William arrived successful Cape Town connected Monday and his engagements passim nan week person been heavy focused connected ambiance alteration and conservation. He met pinch young environmentalists from his Earthshot younker program, went connected a quality locomotion near Cape Town's Table Mountain to item nan activity of conservation rangers, attended a world wildlife summit, and visited a botanical garden. He will walk clip astatine a oversea rescue guidelines and meet section fishermen connected nan last time of his sojourn connected Thursday.
William's woman Kate, the Princess of Wales, and their children Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis did not recreation pinch him, though William wore a bracelet pinch nan letters “Papa” that he said Charlotte made for him.
Kate has only precocious returned to immoderate nationalist duties aft curen for an undisclosed type of cancer. Ahead of Wednesday's awards, William told nan BBC that Kate was doing “really well” and has been “amazing this full year.”
William has long-standing links to Africa and traveled to nan continent arsenic a boy aft his mother, Princess Diana, was killed successful a car clang successful 1997. Kate and William exchanged rings astatine a wildlife conservancy successful Kenya successful 2010.
William met South African President Cyril Ramaphosa astatine nan president's Cape Town residence this week and South Africa's 2nd biggest metropolis has paid tribute to nan prince's sojourn by lighting up nan look of its iconic Table Mountain successful greenish to admit his biology awards.
“Africa’s been a large portion of my life since I’ve been a young boy, since I first came to Africa,” William said. "Every clip I travel present I tin beryllium myself and get distant from each nan worldly that happens successful my normal life. And truthful it’s a really typical place, a location from location for me.”
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