joined schoolchildren at Kew Gardens alongside some famous faces, ahead of the inaugural Earthshot Prize Awards ceremony on Sunday.
Prince William and Kate also met the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, naturalist and presenter Steve Backshall MBE, and Olympian Helen Glover to take part in a series of activities alongside the students from The Heathlands School, Hounslow, as part of the Generation Earthshot initiative.
Recent findings from The Children's Commissioner's Big Ask show that young people are concerned about the future of the planet, with 39 percent of children asked in the UK identifying the environment as one of their main worries about the future.
Generation Earthshot informs that interest and encourages students and their teachers around the world to generate ideas to solve the world's greatest environmental challenges. It aims to unlock the potential of the next generation of inventors, innovators and leaders who will inherit our world and inspire in them the enthusiasm to develop new solutions and protect our planet.
この日、キャサリン妃とウィリアム王子が揃って
ロンドンは、キューガーデンに登場された。
地球環境を回復させるべく、
ウィリアム王子が立ち上げられたビッグプロジェクト
アースショット
その一環として、
地球環境回復に貢献している人たちや企業を称する授与式
“アースショット・アワード“の第一回めが、
今週末に開催されますが
そのPRも兼ね、関連イベントに出席されたご夫妻。
ロンドン西部のスクール、
The Heathlands School, in Hounslow
から集まった、いわゆる次世代の子供たちと交流され
彼らの創造力を生かした、環境改善のためのアイデアをお聞きに。
また、
探検家で自然主義者、英国アカデミー賞も受賞した《Steve Backshall》と
パートナーでオリンピアンの 《Helen Glover》
さらに、ロンドン市長も同席。
どうやら英国の調査によれば、
英国の子供たちの39%が、
将来最も不安に思うことの一つとして、
環境問題について、挙げたのだとか。
すごいですね〜
それだけ、子供達の関心が高いとうことが。
若者たちのアイデアに耳を傾けられたり、
一緒にアクティビティをされたキャサリン妃＆ウィリアム王子でした。
訪問後には、ウィリアム王子がこんな声明を。
"Education is such an important part of protecting our planet. We must inspire in the next generation the optimism, confidence and enthusiasm to chase those solutions and to continue building a more sustainable future.
"We know that young children already identify the climate as one of their biggest worries, and Generation Earthshot aims to educate and encourage them that together we can find the answers.
"Children can be uniquely creative and I can't wait to see some of the ideas that are shared with us."
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New Zealand in 2014 -- specifically, on a day in the Waikato region of the North Island
the Duchess received several compliments from well-wishers, replying she "liked it", and adding William thought it a "bit bright"
for the start of the Tour de France in July 2014
engagements in London focused on suicide prevention in 2016
Prince George, the mini eco-warrior! Prince William says son, 8, gets 'confused and annoyed' when rubbish reappears the next day after litter- picking with school
Prince William says eight-year-old son has started litter picking with his school
The young royal becomes frustrated when rubbish reappears the next day
Duke of Cambridge made comments in interview on issues facing the climate
He said it would be a 'disaster' if George is having 'same conversation' as an adult
The Duke of Cambridge says Prince George becomes 'confused and annoyed' when rubbish reappears after he's picked up litter.
The eight-year-old royal has been collecting rubbish with his £20,000-a-year school, Thomas's Battersea, in south west London, but expressed frustration to his dad that litter continues to appear in the same place daily.
Prince William made the comments as he spoke to BBC Newscast's Adam Fleming in a sit-down interview about the current issues facing the climate at Kensington Palace.
The 39-year-old duke said it would be a 'disaster' if George were to be sat down in 30 years' time having the same conversation, because 'by then we will be too late'.
'So George at school recently has been doing litter picking', said William.
'I didn't realise but talking to him the other day he was already showing that he was getting a bit confused and a bit sort of annoyed by the fact they went out litter picking one day and then the very next day they did the same route, same time and pretty much all the same litter they picked up back again'.
And I think that for him he was trying to understand how and where it all came from. He couldn't understand, he's like, "Well, we cleaned this. Why has it not gone away?"
The father-of-three, who shares George, Princess Charlotte, six, and Prince Louis, three, with his wife, the Duchess of Cambridge, said his father Prince Charles had a 'a really rough ride' but was 'well ahead of the curve' on the environment.
He said: 'It's been a hard road for [my father]. My grandfather started off helping out WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) a long time ago with its nature work and biodiversity.
'I think that my father's sort of progressed that on and talked about climate change a lot more, very early on, before anyone else thought it was a topic.
'So yes, he's had a really rough ride on that, and I think you know he's been proven to being well ahead of the curve. Well beyond his time in warning about some of these dangers.
'But it shouldn't be that there's a third generation now coming along having to ramp it up even more.
'And you know, for me, it would be an absolute disaster if George is sat here talking to you or your successor, Adam, you know in like 30 years' time, whatever, still saying the same thing, because by then we will be too late.'
He added that his viewpoint had changed since he had his own children, saying: 'I want the things that I've enjoyed - the outdoor life, nature, the environment - I want that to be there for my children, and not just my children but everyone else's children.
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