Visiting the incredible pavilions at Expo 2020, I was struck by the optimistic message Dubai is sending to its millions of international visitors – that when the world comes together, we can create a better tomorrow.
It is a vision that is shared by the UK too, as demonstrated by our two countries’ strong and enduring links.
This celebration of innovation, sustainability and collaboration is an ethos that sits at the heart of my work with The Royal Foundation of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
In 2020, we established The Earthshot Prize. Inspired by president John F. Kennedy’s Moon Shot, The Prize aims to discover, accelerate and scale ground-breaking solutions to repair our world.
We are in a decisive decade for our planet. Over the next 10 years, if we do nothing, we will face increasingly devastating crises as a result of our changing climate. Or we can step up now and take the action needed to repair and regenerate our planet.
At the showcase, DP World chairman Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem announced £1 million of funding for two Earthshot innovators to ramp up their work.
Earthshot Prize winner ‘Coral Vita’, whose innovative coral farming approach grows resilient coral up to 50 times faster than traditional methods, will receive £500,000 to expand the project from their base in The Bahamas and lay the foundations for the first-ever commercial land-based coral farm for reef restoration in the Middle East.
