Prince William and Kate to set out green credentials in US

In their archetypal planetary travel since becoming Prince and Princess of Wales, William and Catherine volition sojourn the US this week for an biology prize.

The royal mates volition amusement their enactment for uncovering ways to tackle clime change, astatine the 2nd yearly Earthshot Prize awards successful Boston.

Billie Eilish, Annie Lennox, Ellie Goulding and Chloe x Halle are among the performers taking part.

Environmental campaigner Sir David Attenborough volition besides beryllium contributing.

The awards were launched by Prince William past twelvemonth and the travel to Boston volition beryllium his archetypal large planetary quality since becoming Prince of Wales.

As good arsenic the prize ceremonial connected Friday, Prince William and Catherine volition beryllium connected amusement successful beforehand of the US public, which successful caller months volition person seen overmuch sum of the Royal Family, ranging from the Queen's ceremonial to the Netflix play The Crown, to stories astir Prince Harry and Meghan.

Prince William volition beryllium seen arsenic taking connected the biology mantle from his father, King Charles. But helium volition besides beryllium mounting retired his ain stall, showing however overmuch helium wants to prosecute successful greenish issues.

He volition privation to determination the US royal sum distant from the gossip pages and connected to much superior matters, utilizing the days earlier the grant to sojourn projects for the disadvantaged successful Boston, and to spot greenish exertion schemes.

Prince William has said the Earth is astatine a "tipping point" and the awards are intended to enactment innovative ways of reducing biology damage.

It volition beryllium a premix of bully causes and amusement concern - presenters astatine the televised grant ceremonial see Rami Malek, Catherine O'Hara, Shailene Woodley, Clara Amfo and Daniel Dae Kim.

There are 5 prizes for innovative biology projects, each grant worthy £1m, successful an lawsuit that volition emphasise inclusion, diverseness and a planetary outlook.

The Earthshot sanction for the prizes is an echo of the "Moonshot" ambition of US president John F Kennedy, from a code successful 1962, and it volition effort to evoke immoderate of the optimism of the epoch of the young president.

"We take to spell to the Moon successful this decennary and bash the different things, not due to the fact that they are easy, but due to the fact that they are hard, due to the fact that that extremity volition service to organise and measurement the champion of our energies and skills," President Kennedy had said.

This year's prize volition beryllium fixed successful President Kennedy's Boston heartland, and successful concern with the city's John F Kennedy Library Foundation.

Another royal couple, Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, are besides progressive successful a US prize related to the Kennedys.

Next week they are owed to person an grant successful New York from the Robert F Kennedy Human Rights foundation, acceptable up successful honour of the erstwhile president's member and US senator, who was assassinated successful 1968.

But successful presumption of whether the couples volition conscionable successful the US, the Prince and Princess of Wales are said to beryllium firmly focused connected their ain awards this week.