Prince Harry honoured as 'Titan' on the TIME100 Climate 2024 list!

[TallerSally]

Well well. Harry being recognised alongside Bill Gates, the mayors of Paris and London Anne Hidalgo and Sadiq Khan, British politician and climate advocate Ed Miliband, the President of the World Bank Ajay Banga...

Harry's work with Travalyst is lower key than his mental health advocacy or Invictus, but it's nice to see it being so recognised.

Congrats are due... but some folks are going to be hopping mad!

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https://time.com/collection/time100-climate-2024/

From TIME:

"The Duke of Sussex supports conservation groups in Africa and says he really became an environmentalist during a trip in 2012 to the Caribbean when a 7-year-old boy told him that England’s environmental impact was damaging the coral reefs. After that interaction, he was inspired to start Travalyst (“travel” and “catalyst”), a nonprofit that provides people booking travel with emissions and other sustainability data so they can consider the lowest impact options. The aim is to help make a dent in the industry’s carbon footprint; tourism makes up about 11% of global greenhouse gas emissions.

Travalyst worked with Google to create the Travel Impact Model, a free, publicly available methodology launched in 2022 that predicts per-passenger CO2 emissions produced by upcoming flights. Travalyst’s coalition of partners, representing a combined market value of $3 trillion, includes top tech companies used by tourists like Booking.com, Expedia Group, Mastercard, Skyscanner, Tripadvisor and Visa. On Sept. 12, Travalyst announced that its flight emissions data has appeared in 65 billion searches worldwide.

Prince Harry has stressed that sustainable travel also means travel that boosts local economies and supports tourism businesses that hire local talent. He summed up Travalyst’s mission at its fifth anniversary celebration on Sept. 24 during Climate Week: “As I sought solutions to some of the world's most pressing conservation challenges, I quickly realized just how profound an impact the travel and tourism industry has…together we are proving that travel can be a force for good. So let’s continue this journey together and make sure that travel benefits everyone everywhere.”

https://time.com/7172552/prince-harry-climate/

This is great news. I’m glad he’s being recognised for his hard and innovative work.

What hard work? He flies on private jets, uses extremely environmentally unsound cars, his wife buys designer clothes she wears once. They live in a mansion with many many rooms for two adults and two small children. They have a pool. What's environmentally friendly about that exactly?

Congrats are due... but some folks are going to be hopping mad!

That's because some folks are quite simply mad. Or as the MN founder put it 'deranged'. Your thread will attract a number of them, I'm sure.
I'm glad it's another win for the prince. He must be delighted that he now has the freedom to pursue his interests and passions - and worthy ones at that. His previous life appeared so grim.

I think this has given more information on what Travelyst has actually been doing than anything else I have seen.

The 65 billion could be a little misleading though. Travelyst is collating data from others. It's not a measure of people using Travelyst or even visiting its site.

is this a piss take?
Have they seen anything at all of his lifestyle?

If he put his own annual travel through his algorithm it would probably blow up.

I don't know anyone who still reads Time. Its circulation has dropped considerably. This is an attempt to generate buzz and clicks.

Harry flies constantly in a private plane, plays polo, and lives with his family of 4 in a 16 bathroom house with water- intensive grounds.

Well done to Harry.

Another bought award ?

@TallerSally Right on cue. If you didn’t know already, OP, the modus operandi in these situations is first to give a superficial rundown of why neither of the Sussex couple are worthy of any positive recognition. When that falls on deaf ears (as it’s the same repetitive mantra) we enter the phase of discrediting whomever dared to bestow on the royal couple an award / to speak highly of them (or, at the very least, did not end their sentence with a damning indictment of them / to stand within the same photo frame as them. It's a predictable sequence.

No, I don't think these ones are.

It's the magazine's own list - so an extended editorial piece.

nope, it's the hypocrisy of accepting an award for anything to do with climate/ being green when your lifestyle is one of massive overconsumption of resources.
I say the same for all members of the grifting hypocritical , lecturing family and others with similar lifestyle

This.
Token self-promoting.

Call me deranged all you like but its do as I say not as I do with Harry.
We don't want to be working Royals but we want the money and status.
We want to do token gestures about the environment while living the lifestyle of a millionaire California family.
Gosh I'm so deranged for not buying their tosh.

16 bathrooms!!!Do they usethem in order?

Imagine the staff they need to clean the house too.

Bill Gates owns four business jets: two GulfstreamG650ERs, estimated to cost $70 million each, and two Bombardier Challenger 350s, priced at $27 million each.

That will tell you how rational those awards are.

Think you need to edit that bit about her wearing clothes only once. She has worn outfits multiple times ..take the red dress for example.

The red dress has been worn twice . Is that now multiple?
I can’t think of anything else she has worn more than once except, perhaps, jeans .

personally I can't see the difference between this and PW earth thing.
not a fan of rich people who fly all over the place and live in massive houses pretending they care about the planet.

It's utterly absurd. You can say what you want about William, but unlike Harry and Travelyst, Earthshot is not about William's self aggrandisement, nor is it there to lecture ordinary citizens about their carbon footprint, whilst in a single year, their "leader" has a bigger carbon footprint through private air travel than most people will have in a lifetime. Earthshot seeks out and rewards environmental innovators/scientists. Travelyst isn't even in the same ballpark.

Who do you think will make these innovations whilst living in a hay bale hut without water or power? It's always going to have a degree of hypocrisy, for the vast majority of anyone that could come up with something impactful and have funds.
The travelyst sounds like a great idea. More of this needed.

Yes exactly

Why do you assume developing countries are the ones that have to change?