Prince William takes his Earthshot Prize to South Africa! The fourth annual Prince of Wales Awards Ceremony will take place in Cape Town in November

Prince William's fourth Earthshot Prize will travel to Cape Town, South Africa, in November, raising the prospect of a royal visit to the country.

The Prince of Wales, 41, has attended every annual awards ceremony for his environmental initiative to date, including events in London in 2021, Boston in 2022 and Singapore in 2023.

His wife Kate, 42, who is currently recovering from abdominal surgery at Adelaide Cottage in Windsor and is not expected to resume official duties until after Easter, traveled to the United States with her husband.

However, she missed the latest event in Singapore after staying home to help her eldest son Prince George, 10, with his “first set of major exams.”

It is unclear whether the prince, whose father King Charles is currently battling cancer, and the Princess of Wales will travel to South Africa for Earthshot Week 2024. MailOnline has contacted Kensington Palace.

For five days events, the Earthshot Prize will celebrate the groundbreaking work of fifteen global environmental solutions.

It will bring together leading innovators, Earthshot Alumni, partners, investors and philanthropists for inspiring conversations and action to catalyze solutions to protect and restore our planet.

The Earthshot Prize is an ambitious global environmental prize that aims to discover and help scale the world's most innovative climate and environmental solutions to protect and restore our planet.

The prize is danced around five 'Earthshots'; simple but ambitious goals to ensure that our communities, oceans and ecosystems can thrive together in harmony for generations to come.

Over the coming months, a rigorous selection process will identify fifteen finalists from around the world, five of whom will receive a £1 million prize to scale up their solutions at the ceremony in Cape Town.

Hannah Jones, CEO of The Earthshot Prize said: 'This is the Earthshot Decade, a decade in which we must reduce CO2 emissions by more than 40 percent and protect 30 percent of nature, oceans and freshwater by 2030.

“The Earthshot Prize nominations remind us that human ingenuity, perseverance and determination can turn the seemingly impossible into the new normal.

'We're excited to work with changemakers and partners across Africa to showcase the incredible innovation emerging on the continent, spark courageous conversations around scale and finance, and collaborate with young makers and filmmakers to tell the story of changemakers across Africa. '

Nearly 400 nominees for this year's award come from Africa, highlighting the groundbreaking creativity and innovation across the continent with the potential to inspire optimism and provide pathways to transformative change around the world.

The Prince of Wales, patron of London's Air Ambulance Charity, attends the London Air Ambulance charity gala dinner at Raffles London at The OWO on Wednesday

Despite contributing the least to global warming and having the lowest emissions, Africa is the most vulnerable continent to the effects of climate change.

According to the World Meteorological Organization, in 2022 alone, more than 110 million people across Africa were directly affected by weather, climate and water-related hazards.

Earthshot Week kicks off with The Prize's annual awards ceremony, an evening of extraordinary stories and star-studded performances, celebrating the work of the fifteen Earthshot Prize finalists.

The ceremony will be followed by Earthshot+, a day of thought-provoking conversations aimed at amplifying the impact of the Earthshot Prize winners and finalists.

The Prize recently concluded its annual nomination process, culminating in nearly 2,500 entries from 432 official nominators from around the world, doubling the number of nominations from last year.

Nearly 400 of the 2024 nominations are headquartered in Africa, three times more than any previous set of nominations.

The Prince and Princess of Wales arrive for the second annual Earthshot Prize Awards Ceremony in 2022

The Prize's first three cohorts of 45 finalists have already had an incredible impact in repairing and regenerating our planet, with more than 1.5 million people directly benefiting from their solutions.

More than 7,000 hectares of land and almost 2.1 million hectares of ocean have been protected or restored, while more than 35,000 tons of CO2 emissions have been reduced, avoided or sequestered. The 2024 Earthshot Prize finalists will be announced in September.

The announcement comes after The Daily Mail's Richard Eden revealed that the Earthshot Prize charity raked in a massive £22.4 million in revenue in its first nine months alone.

At the time of launch, Earthshot was managed by the Royal Foundation, set up by Princes William and Harry in 2009 to further their various charitable ambitions.

But in 2022 the prize was divested and run as a completely separate charity.

While the Royal Foundation transferred £8.6 million, the rest came from various sources, as just published by the Charity Commission shows.

Donations totaled £7 million, while 'gifts in kind' amounted to just over £3 million, and a grant from the American Friends of the Royal Foundation amounted to a further £2.7 million.

The remaining five percent – ​​​​£1.1 million – came from sponsorship and licensing income.