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Celebrities have joined Prince William in London for the inaugural 'Earthshot Prize' awards, an ambitious environmental program that aims to support new ideas and technologies from around the world.

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Prince William in London for inaugural 'Earthshot Prize'
Celebrities have joined Prince William in London for the inaugural 'Earthshot Prize' awards, an ambitious environmental program that aims to support new ideas and technologies from around the world.

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The winners announced on Sunday included the government of Costa Rica, which was honoured for a project that pays local citizens to restore natural ecosystems, and the city of Milan, which was handed a prize for its Food Waste Hubs program which recovers food from supermarkets and restaurants and distributes it to those in need.

Actors Emma Thompson, Emma Watson and David Oyelowo joined the Duke of Cambridge and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, in handing out the awards at Alexandra Palace in north London.

Guests were asked to "Consider the environment when choosing their outfit".

Watson arrived wearing a gown made from 10 wedding dresses from the charity Oxfam.

The duchess wore an Alexander McQueen dress made for her in 2011, while Prince William wore a dark green velvet blazer and a black polo neck top.

Prince William and his charity, The Royal Foundation, launched the Earthshot Prize last year, inspired by US President John Kennedy's 1962 "Moonshot" speech that challenged and inspired Americans to go to the moon.

The prize, to be awarded to five winners every year until 2030, is billed as the most prestigious of its kind.

Each winner will receive a grant worth 1 million pounds ($1.85 million) to develop their ideas and help them materialise.

"There's been lots of amazing ideas over the past decades but it's the implementation that really counts. So, that's what this is all about. So, it's really a reason to be cheerful," Thompson said.

The other winners were a land-based coral farm in the Bahamas that aims to restore dying coral reefs; a green hydrogen technology developed to transform how homes and buildings are powered; and an India-based technology that creates fuel from agricultural waste in a bid to stop crop burning.

Prince William has said he wanted the initiative to inject some optimism into the climate debate.

On Sunday he urged young people not to give up hope for the future.

"For too long, we haven't done enough to protect the planet for your future. The Earthshot is for you," he said.

"In the next 10 years, we are going to act. We are going to find the solutions to repair our planet."

The United States will host next year's award ceremony.

This year's ceremony came just days ahead of the COP26 UN climate change summit in Glasgow, which begins on October 31.

Earlier this week, Prince William criticised the space race and space tourism, saying in an interview that the world's greatest minds should be focused on repairing Earth instead of "trying to find the next place to go and live".

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