{"id":367084,"date":"2025-11-09T14:56:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T14:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/367084\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T14:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T14:56:11","slug":"prince-william-grilled-for-flying-8800-km-to-receive-climate-award-in-brazil-enjoying-private-jets-while-lecturing-on-carbon-footprints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/367084\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince William grilled for flying 8,800 km to receive climate award in Brazil: \u2018Enjoying private jets while lecturing on carbon footprints\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Prince Prince William\u2019s visit to Brazil for his Earthshot Prize has stirred a row, with social media accusing him of hypocrisy over his carbon footprint. The Prince of Wales travelled roughly 8,800 kilometres to Rio de Janeiro for this year\u2019s Earthshot events, which are being held just days before the COP30 climate conference begins in Bel\u00e9m.The Earthshot Prize awards \u00a31 million to each of five innovative climate solutions, with ceremonies held on different continents. This year\u2019s stop in Rio was meant to showcase global climate leadership and tie into the messaging around COP30. William arrived in the city last week and was handed the ceremonial keys to Rio. According to Newsweek, William’s flew commercially, with support from Earthshot and the UK\u2019s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. But the details of the travel didn\u2019t stop backlash. The posts attacked the Prince closely, with a long-running debate around Prince Harry\u2019s use of private jets. <\/p>\n

Internet’s venting session<\/p>\n

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  1. Several X users said the optics were \u201cdetached from reality.\u201d One wrote: \u201cTravelling by private jet to a conference about climate change is a level of detachment from reality that\u2019s impossible to grasp.\u201d<\/li>\n
  2. Others slammed the climate conference COP30 itself, pointing out the number of VIP flights heading to Brazil: \u201cHundreds of private jets from around the world are descending on Bel\u00e9m to talk about climate change and ways to restrict your free movement. If this makes sense to you, you\u2019re part of the problem.\u201d<\/li>\n
  3. Another user wrote: \u201cPrivate jet to come lecture on carbon emissions. Thirteen kilometres of the Amazon destroyed for this entitled lazy man to come lecture and take pics on the beach.\u201d Others mocked the idea he was \u201cpreparing his speech,\u201d joking that he was probably reading it for the first time after aides wrote it.<\/li>\n
  4. Some comments also tied the criticism to recent tensions around the monarchy, noting that William\u2019s trip comes as the royal family continues facing public scrutiny over Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and his past links with Jeffrey Epstein.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince William\u2019s visit to Brazil for his Earthshot Prize has stirred a row, with social media accusing him…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":367085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[36894,177480,177478,746,177479,177481,159,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-367084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-carbon-footprint","9":"tag-cop30-climate-conference","10":"tag-earthshot-prize","11":"tag-environment","12":"tag-prince-william-brazil-visit","13":"tag-private-jets-climate-conference","14":"tag-science","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115520326392455789","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}