The Duke of Cambridge is launching the award to tackle climate change, following discussions with Sir David Attenborough about how to repair the planet by 2030

Prince William is passionate about the environment and hopes the prize will make change

The Duke of Cambridge will today launch the most prestigious global environment prize in history..

William hopes the new global competition for the environment will incentivise change and help to repair our planet over the next ten years – a critical decade for the Earth.

The competition will offer five, one million-pound prizes to be awarded each year for the next 10 years, providing at least 50 solutions to the world’s greatest environmental problems by 2030.

Royal sources said the Duke is “taking the mantle from his father and grandfather to become a global leader on the world stage on the world’s biggest environmental issues”.

During his time in Namibia, Kenya, and Tanzania tackling conservation issues and illegal wildlife trade he was inspired to explore permanent solutions to global environmental challenges.

Following a conversation with Sir David Attenborough in London, the famed activist and royal discussed an idea to create a prize that will not only incentivize the global effort to protect and restore the environment, but also help repair the planet by 2030.