In August, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex traveled to Colombia, on the invitation of the country’s vice president. The British media threw a huge tantrum over it, slamming Colombia, belittling the continent of South America, and saying outright that only desperate and pathetic countries would invite the Sussexes to visit. Even more hilarious was when the royal reporters revealed that those talking points came directly from Buckingham Palace. Well, first they cry, then they mock, and then they copy. Guess who’s going to South America next year? It looks like Prince William will soon announce that Earthshot’s 2025 ceremony will be held in South America, and he also revealed plans to go to COP30 in Brazil.
Prince William is looking ahead to the next year of taking his environmental mission, The Earthshot Prize, around the world. The Prince of Wales, 42, is looking forward to “playing a role” at the next big climate control meeting in Brazil, PEOPLE understands.
His attendance at the 2025 UN Climate Change Conference — known in shorthand as COP30, and scheduled for mid-November 2025 —would be the latest stage of his increasing role as a world statesman. In doing so, Prince William would follow in the footsteps of his father King Charles, who has attended — and spoken at — climate conferences several times.
The next venue for William’s Earthshot Prize Awards — the fifth iteration of the 10 ceremonies expected — has yet to be announced, but it is widely expected to be in South America.
Conveniently, the Earthshot Prize Awards typically fall within the first weeks of November, setting the Prince of Wales up to potentially attend COP30, which runs from Nov. 10 to 21.
Usually, William announces the next year’s Earthshot host city at Earthshot or just after. The silence seems to indicate that maybe South American countries aren’t all that eager to play host to Peggington’s vanity project? It would be hilarious if William demanded to go to Colombia, but I suspect he’ll probably try to go to Brazil. The fact that William is running around, briefing everyone about his plans to go somewhere in November 2025 shows you that this sad man has very little on his plate:
The Prince of Wales will attend next year’s COP climate conference in Brazil, it has been confirmed, as he pushes to “use his platform to spread urgent optimism” around the environmental debate. He wants to take that message to the high-level UN climate conference – due to take place in Belem next November.
A royal source said: “Throughout his trip (to South Africa) the prince spoke about the importance of not losing sight of what needs to be done between now and 2030 – the Earthshot decade. His commitment to restoring the future of the planet is unwavering and the prince is determined to do all he can to use his platform to spread urgent optimism. Next year, the climate COP will take place in Brazil, and it’s set to be hugely consequential. The Prince of Wales is looking forward to playing a role there.”
His decision to attend COP can potentially be seen as a sign of his desire to take on an even greater diplomatic role in the environmental sphere. It’s understood that Prince William’s decision to fly to Brazil won’t necessarily be in place of the King, who has delivered keynote speeches at a number of COP conferences, and is viewed as a global leader in environmental matters. But the King’s attendance would be at the foreign office’s request, and under the advice of doctors following his cancer treatment.
Just so we’re clear, he briefed everyone about his plans to attend next year’s COP conference… while he and his father are not bothering to go to this year’s conference in Baku, Azerbaijan. That’s how much William “cares” about all of this, including statesmanship – he’s too lazy to actually go to a conference of world leaders this week, because he’s too busy screaming about how he’ll be a statesman one year from now. Anyway, I’m looking forward to hearing where Earthshot will go next year. As I said, I bet they’re having difficulties finding a country to host.
Photos courtesy of Cover Images.
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- The Prince of Wales during an event to meet young environmentalists from across Africa and Southeast Asia who are taking part in the inaugural Earthshot Prize Climate Leaders Youth Programme, at Rooftop on Bree in Cape Town, on day one of his visit to South Africa, ahead of the fourth annual Earthshot Prize Awards ceremony on November 6 Featuring: William, Prince of Wales Where: Cape Town, South Africa When: 04 Nov 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Prince of Wales attends Earthshot+, at Portside Tower in Cape Town, a day of impactful conversations with world-leading experts aimed at multiplying the impact of The Earthshot Prize, on day two of his visit to South Africa for the fourth annual Earthshot Prize Awards ceremony on November 6 Featuring: William, Prince of Wales Where: Cape Town, South Africa When: 05 Nov 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Prince of Wales attends Earthshot+, at Portside Tower in Cape Town, a day of impactful conversations with world-leading experts aimed at multiplying the impact of The Earthshot Prize, on day two of his visit to South Africa for the fourth annual Earthshot Prize Awards ceremony on November 6 Featuring: William, Prince of Wales Where: Cape Town, South Africa When: 05 Nov 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Prince of Wales meets with volunteers of the National Seas Rescue Institute (NSRI) during his visit to Simon’s Town Harbour, Cape Town, to hear about their lifesaving work, on the last day of his visit to South Africa. Featuring: William, Prince of Wales Where: Cape Town, South Africa When: 07 Nov 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Prince of Wales during a visit to meet with volunteers of the National Seas Rescue Institute (NSRI) at Simon’s Town Harbour, Cape Town, to hear about their lifesaving work, on the last day of his visit to South Africa. Featuring: William, Prince of Wales Where: Cape Town, South Africa When: 07 Nov 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Prince of Wales visits Kalk Bay Harbour, Cape Town, to speak to local fishermen and highlight the contributions of 2023 Earthshot Finalist Abalobi, on the last day of his visit to South Africa. Featuring: William, Prince of Wales Where: Cape Town, South Africa When: 07 Nov 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Prince of Wales during his visit to the Seaweed Innovator Showcase at Portside Tower, Cape Town, to meet seaweed businesses from the region to celebrate local innovation, learn about the diverse applications of seaweed in Africa and the potential for it to repair and regenerate the planet, on the last day of his visit to South Africa Featuring: William, Prince of Wales Where: Cape Town, South Africa When: 07 Nov 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Prince of Wales during his visit to the Seaweed Innovator Showcase at Portside Tower, Cape Town, to meet seaweed businesses from the region to celebrate local innovation, learn about the diverse applications of seaweed in Africa and the potential for it to repair and regenerate the planet, on the last day of his visit to South Africa Featuring: William, Prince of Wales Where: Cape Town, South Africa When: 07 Nov 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
Unlike IG, hosting the ES doesn’t seem to get much attention for the country involved.
You’re right it doesn’t seem to bring much attention. They are so obviously trying to do what Harry does but the problem with that is that Harry was invited! He was welcomed and loved. He brought attention to his cause and not himself and the people there were happy he was there !! He was not protested and had to leave through a back door. He didn’t have to hire super models, who didn’t know what earthshit was, to stand next to him for photo ops. He didn’t stand next to people with his hands cupped in front of him and shoulders slouched forward so as not to touch the person of color. These little I’m going to copy Harry sessions are not working.
It doesn’t even bring attention to the winning concepts and their inventors.
William just uses it as a backdrop to persuade people he does ‘statesman-like things’.
I still don’t know who won this year or what they did to win?
I don’t either. Now, maybe the actual ES social media shared that, but you would think William would use his platform of 14 million followers (all real, obviously) on IG to amplify the winners.
Instead, it was all about himself, his vintage sneakers, and meeting Heidi Klum.
Even if the Eathshot award ceremony was the most well-run and glamorous event, tourists wouldn’t flock to South Africa to see Advanced Thermovoltaic Systems get an award. And if tourists cared about the antelopes of Kazakhstan, why would they go to SA?
The global nature of the Earthshot mission isn’t in where the awards are held, but in the award winners and finalists. I get that William is a thirsty, thirsty glory hound, but what about the Earthshot board and management?
When are the board of directors for Earthshot going to ask him to give a ” we’ve accomplished so much, it’s time for me to take a step back” speech? He brings absolutely no benefit to the organization. He doesn’t bring eyes to it, he doesn’t bring celebrities to it for support, no larger connections with partner organizations because of his behind the scenes legwork, it’s been in existence for several years and people probably couldn’t tell you a single winner, including this year and that should be fresh. It exists solely from his point of view as a way to chase his brother around the globe. Just like no one wants to host the Commonwealth games, no one is going to want to put forth any effort in shutting down streets and having dignitaries meet for something that most of the world doesn’t even know exist.
Interesting that he’s chosen a non-Spanish speaking South American country at that.
https://en.m.wikiversity.org/wiki/World_Languages/South_America#:~:text=Spanish%20is%20the%20official%20language,that%20are%20not%20historically%20Spanish.
He didn’t choose the location for COP30, but I bet the only reason he’s going is because Brazil’s language isn’t Spanish.
I will LMAO if the next earthshit is held in Colombia though!
@HeatherC, Portuguese isn’t much easier…lol.
Robert, I don’t think he knows the difference or the similarities lol
Maybe Harry and Meghan should take on a new homelessness project in the UK to goad William into doing something substantial. Might be the only thing that works 😂
We still don’t know who won this year’s Earthshot prize.
With IG Harry&Meghan bring the star power but it’s a huge family which focuses on the participants, like in the Netflix series.
With Earthshot is about Willy and celebs. Haven’t heard anything about the prize winners.
The same thing happened in Britain with Invictus, No results in the popular press just criticism of Harry and Meghan. Of course their readers blamed H & M for the poor coverage, but the editors know what their readers like.
Yawn.
So Slumlord Willy hasn’t been officially asked to attend the actual COP30 conference?
It looks like he plans to set up his Eggshot sideshow in the front yard, hoping someone pity him enough to invite him inside.
HAROLD ARE YOU PAYING ATTENTION
South America now belongs to ME Harold! I am the world statesman. Because I said so!
What a pathetic man. Trailng after his brother to go to South America.
It’s looking beyond desperate for attention at this point, the beaded “Papa” bracelet was so creepy, the fact that he tries to take everything that is Prince Harry, but the one thing he is desperate for is the acceptance, independence, accomplishments and accolades from others world wide which is never going to happen no matter how many times the rota print or say “Statesman”.
I wonder if he’s also mad that Charles and Camilla took his Italy trip. That would have been a somewhat easy one. Now he’s trying to figure out somewhere to go since he’s said that he and Kate will travel again next year.
That pic of him guarding the royal jewels, baring his teeth in what looks like a snarl and looking away from everyone, while the man next to him engages with people, tells me all I need to know about his “global statesman” abilities.
Soooo does he just follow everything that Harry does? I know the Singapore ES was scheduled/announced before Harry went there for the polo match, but it did seem like William was following in Harry’s footsteps. Now William goes to South Africa a few weeks after Harry did (again this was scheduled but optics wise, it doesnt’ look good for William, also considering that South Africa was the site of H&M’s last very successful royal tour) and now he’s following Harry to South America, lol for days.
Part of the reason all of this looks so desperate is that William does not travel to these countries or areas of the world on a regular basis. He did his gap year in Chile and spent what, a month, in the Falklands, but he and Kate have never done any kind of official visit to South America. I saw something a month or two ago that talked about one official visit from William to Africa but I forget which country, it was in the context of Sophie visiting Chad as the first British royal to do so – so he’s never been to South Africa as a working royal. Even most of his Kenya trips are personal unless he makes up a reason why the government should pay for them.
So regardless of actual scheduling and preplanning, this really just comes off as William desperately following Harry around the globe insisting “I’M IMPORTANT TOO!!!!!”
Well, I think he & Kate don’t really go to South America because Britain didn’t have much of a toehold there; Spain & Portugal did.
See, I think William and his people knew full well that Harry would be heading to Singapore for the polo that *that’s* why they decided to state his self-embiggening show in that country. I’m pretty certain that they invest a lot of time and money into trying to keep tabs on what H+M are doing and what they spend even more time trying to copy what they are doing and pretending that they thought of it first.
Lol Harry has just been named a Titan in the Times 100 Climate change for Travelyst.
Very well deserved for Harrry but someone won’t be pleased
Oh Shoot! Sh#@ on a cracker. Heads are going to explode in KP. Don’t Time know that little Willy is the environmental warrior? Look he has a climate awards ceremony that he holds every year, he is the international statesman ( eye roll) and don’t forget the heir to the British throne.
Congratulations to Harry. His years of hard work is paying off.
Oh how I want to see Peg’s reaction. Way to go Harry!
Going to continents where Harry and Meghan have gone will not turn you into Harry or make Meghan your wife. And it sure won’t make you happy Willy.
Perhaps if he grew a beard…
Why does he keep saying “urgent optimism”? It sounds so incredibly stupid.
Forgive me, I might be getting old and my brain/ memory may be malfunctioning a bit. But wasn’t Columbia declared to be a hotbed of crime? Murder, kidnapping, drugs and an economic slum? This was only in relation to Harry and Meghan’s visit, got it!
When will this pathetic nincompoop realize how totally stupid his insane one-sided competition with his more accomplished brother, is making him appear to the rational world? And he fails at every attempt.
PLEASE STOP ALREADY!!!
What the heck is “urgent optimism?” Is that his Comms team trying to make it all relevant? Shouldn’t they be looking for urgent solutions? The thing with the choice of location for Earthshot is that it seems so random. I don’t recall why each of the countries was chosen. If COP is being held in Brazil next year, at least it would make sense if they’re trying to trail COP around. But last year they tried to piggy-back on Climate Week. If Earthshot is trying to hit every continent, then he’ll want to go somewhere in Oceania.
Why each of the countries was chosen: who wants to delve into Willy’s wee brain to pull out the worms of genesis of that idea? Not me.
“Urgent optimism” gives leadfoot carbon footprint Cornwall Slumlord and his more generous funding partners an excuse to not think about their own behavior and contribution to climate change. Again, who wants to delve into Willy’s wee brain to pull out the worms of genesis of that non sequitur phrase? 🤮 (same response if it came from his gold thread up the keister advisers – 🤮)
Is it me, or is he looking more and more gaunt?
I hope he at least asked Colombia and they said ‘no’.
A lot of people didn’t even know he was in South Africa 🙄 last week.