He also told presenter Adam Fleming: "It shouldn't be that there's a third generation now coming along having to ramp it up even more. He couldn't understand, he's like, 'Well, we cleaned this. "And I think that for him he was trying to understand how and where it all came from. Prince Charles has launched COP26: In Your Hands " a bit sort of annoyed by the fact they went out litter picking one day and then the very next day, they did the same route, same time and pretty much all the same litter they picked up was back again. "So George at school recently has been doing litter picking and I didn't realise but talking to him the other day he was already showing that he was getting a bit confused," he explained. Prince William, 39, admitted he is worried that his son's generation might still be talking about climate change in 30 years' time, when it "will be too late". Prince George is showing a keen interest in climate changeĭuring an interview with BBC Newscast on BBC Sounds last week, Prince William talked about George's litter picking outing, which was organised by his school Thomas's Battersea. World leaders are preparing to gather at the Cop26 UN climate change conference in Glasgow at the end of the month. He expressed concern that "we have forgotten that we have to put back into nature as much as we take out".Ĭharles's introduction was released the day after his eldest son, the Duke of Cambridge, staged his inaugural Earthshot Prize eco-awards ceremony – an ambitious £50 million, ten-year initiative designed to find solutions to the world’s environmental problems. "When I was his age, people had no idea about the damage they were doing, but by the time I was a teenager I started to see that if we didn’t stop polluting our planet, we would face a very dangerous future indeed." MORE: Prince William makes rare comment about Princess Charlotte during Q+A Like you, he is learning how climate change is causing the big storms, and floods, the droughts, fires, and food shortages we are seeing around the world.Įxclusive: Queen Rania of Jordan 'humbled' to be part of Prince William's visionary Earthshot Prize The Prince explains: "I'm old enough to have a grandson. WATCH: Prince Charles introduces Sky Kids climate change documentary