Earthshot environmental award backed by global figures

It’s time to be positive about beating Climate Change according to Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge. His upbeat tone struck a chord with Cityzenith CEO Michael Jansen, whose company has just pledged free aid to fight greenhouse gas emissions from cities – the world’s biggest contributors to Climate Change.

The Prince has launched his £50 million ‘Earthshot’ environmental award, backed by major global figures such as naturalist and broadcaster Sir David Attenborough and media stars Cate Blanchett and Shakira, to encourage innovation in the climate battle.

And he now realised that galvanising people with optimism was more likely to promote action.

Earthshot: Looking to unite and galvanise 

“There has been lots of calling out and, quite rightly, saying ‘these are the problems, and this is what we’re going to face’.

But there has been very little kind of, ‘well actually, we can fix this, we can provide those solutions and we can, as human beings, turn this around. The tools are there.

“We have the data. So, let’s stop talking about it, collecting data, and let’s actually provide the action and I think that’s what’s going to be really needed over these next ten years.”

The theme of Earthshot was taken up by Cityzenith CEO Michael Jansen: “It was great to hear Prince William, with his global influence, talk about positivity, because we really do have the tools and data to change rather than accept the well-worn gloom and doom narrative around climate change.

“By saying it’s time to ‘stop talking’ and ‘I don’t understand why those who have the levers, don’t (use them)’ he made me feel he could really unlock doors.

Earthshot: Looking to challenge leadership 

The world’s inability to deliver a coordinated response to the persistent degradation of the planet is a testament to the failure of political leadership around this issue at many levels.

Leaders need to get educated and understand that the tools and standards exist, as does the methodology, to push forward with a massive global climate resilience program that would fundamentally restructure and make more sustainable economies all over the world.

“We too aim to reach the ‘movers and shakers’ who can work those levers: the Prince’s Earthshot scheme coincides with our Clean Cities – Clean Future TV ad campaign at Cityzenith and pledge to offer our SmartWorldPro Digital Twin 3D modelling tech for free to cities to help drive down their carbon emissions.

“For a long time, the automobile has been the preferred scapegoat for crimes against the environment while the biggest villain, our cities, has hidden in plain sight.

“The evidence has stacked up against cities: United Nations stats show cities produce more than 70%* of the Earth’s greenhouse gases and influencers like the Prince can reach governments and city fathers looking to transition them from ‘smog generators’ to clean cities.”

“We have over the last decade evolved and matured our Digital Twin platform technology to serve the needs of advanced, sophisticated, large-scale real estate and infrastructure projects around the world.

Some of those include the new Orlando Sports + Entertainment District, the East-West Rail high-speed bullet train project in the UK, and the new Greenfield city of Amravati in India design by Sir Norman Foster.

We’ve been helping our clients reduce carbon emissions and set on a path towards carbon neutrality. It’s now time to unveil this technology to cities, and let them run with it to help their local building owner reduce their carbon emissions and become more sustainable.” We just need more doors unlocked at the top,” said Jansen. “Prince William has made a great start.”

More about Irish Tech News and Business Showcase here.
FYI the ROI for you is => Irish Tech News now gets over 1.5 million monthly views, and up to 900k monthly unique visitors, from over 160 countries. We have over 860,000 relevant followers on Twitter on our various accounts & were recently described as Ireland’s leading online tech news site and Ireland’s answer to TechCrunch, so we can offer you a good audience!

Since introducing desktop notifications a short time ago, which notify readers directly in their browser of new articles being published, over 50,000 people have now signed up to receive them ensuring they are instantly kept up to date on all our latest content. Desktop notifications offer a unique method of serving content directly to verified readers and bypass the issue of content getting lost in people’s crowded news feeds.

Drop us a line if you want to be featured, guest post, suggest a possible interview or just let us know what you would like to see more of in our future articles. We’re always open to new and interesting suggestions for informative and different articles.

Contact us, by email, twitter or whatever social media works for you and hopefully, we can share your story too and reach our global audience. We are agile, responsive, quick and talented, we look forward to working with you!

If you would like to have your company featured in the Irish Tech News Business Showcase, get in contact with us at [email protected] or on Twitter: @SimonCocking