The Prince of Wales has said he is "proud" of the team involved with the Earthshot Prize, having grown his "sea of an idea" to positively impacting 1.5m people three years later. Prince William added he is "thrilled" to be in Singapore and is "really excited" about this year's prize winners and finalists. Prince William was speaking as he met all fifteen 2023 finalists at the base of Singapore's famous 'Supertrees' to hear about their anticipation for the event. Report by Brooksl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 So I'm thrilled to be in Singapore. It's fantastic. And yeah, the third year into the
00:04 earthshot, we've seen an incredible bunch of people come through again. And I think
00:08 from the first year, we can quantify a bit more of the impact. And in the first year
00:12 alone, we've managed to directly impact positively 1.5 million people. We protected about 2.1
00:19 million hectares of ocean, upcycled 35,000 tonnes of waste, 40,000 tonnes of CO2. And
00:26 we're going to do more. And that's just five finalists from the first year. So really excited
00:30 about this year's winners and finalists. Last year, we had two companies, both have expanded
00:35 by eight times and are moving into different countries. So it's all about scale now. My
00:40 job is to really kind of bring the money and the capital and the private sector into the
00:44 earthshot and meet the solutions and go, come on, how can we scale? How can we do more?
00:48 But I'm really proud of the whole team, to be honest. I mean, you know, earthshot coming
00:51 from a seed of an idea to where we are three years later. The whole point is to provide
00:55 impact and to make change. But the guys and girls you've met are fantastic. They're the
01:00 ones at the forefront. And over the next 10 years, we've got to give them the support
01:03 and all the help we can do to their impacts are magnified greater than what they're already