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Earthshot Prize 2025: Prince William announces Brazil as the location of the next environmental awards
by Hannah Furness
The Prince of Wales‘s Earthshot Prize will be held in Brazil in November, it has been confirmed, with the move bringing “fresh momentum for new ideas” to save the planet for our children.
Prince William‘s annual environmental awards will take place in Rio de Janeiro in November – the same month in which Brazil hosts the Cop30 UN climate change summit.
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Kensington Palace has not yet confirmed which members of the Royal family will be attending, but the Prince is all but guaranteed to attend.
The Princess of Wales has remained at home with their children for the last three ceremonies.
The visit coincides with the gathering of world leaders for the UN climate event.
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To mark the announcement, Prince William said: “2025 marks the midway point of the Earthshot decade, and each year we’ve witnessed the remarkable power of human ingenuity in addressing our planet’s most pressing challenges.
“As we bring the Earthshot Prize to Brazil, a nation rich in biodiversity and environmental innovation, we are seeing fresh momentum for new ideas to create healthier and safer ways to live our lives.
“It is an honour to profile the people making our world a better place for us and for our children.”
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Ideas to help ‘repair’ the planet
A video has been released to mark the announcement of the venue location on Friday.
It features the Prince and a host of Earthshot supporters, including council members Cate Blanchett, global ambassador Robert Irwin, the son of the conservationist and TV personality Steve Irwin, who died in 2014, David Beckham, Hannah Waddingham and Heidi Klum, alongside former Brazilian footballers Cafu and Mauro Silva.
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The Prince is the driving force behind the environmental competition, and has attended all the presentation events since launching it.
Cape Town staged the most recent awards ceremony last November after previous prize-giving events were held in Singapore in 2023, Boston in 2022 and London in 2021.
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The Prince founded the prize to recognise and scale-up ideas to help “repair” the planet, with the five winning finalists each awarded £1 million to further develop their ideas.
Awards are presented in five categories, or Earthshots – protect and restore nature; clean our air, revive our oceans; build a waste-free world, and fix our climate.
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