威廉王子地球修复奖堪比诺比尔？
The inaugural winners of Prince William's Earthshot Prize include the country of Costa Rica, an Indian organization that creates fuel from agricultural waste and a coral farming group in the Bahamas.
威廉王子的“地球修复奖”的首届获奖者包括哥斯达黎加、一个利用农业废料生产燃料的印度组织，以及巴哈马群岛的一个珊瑚养殖组织。
The prize, a Nobel-like award founded by the Duke of Cambridge and renowned British naturalist David Attenborough, aims to inspire innovative solutions to the most pressing environmental challenges currently facing the planet.
该奖项类似于诺贝尔奖，由剑桥公爵、英国著名博物学家大卫·阿滕伯勒创立，旨在激发创新解决方案，以应对当前地球面临的最紧迫的环境挑战。
Each of the five winners walks away with £1 million -- the equivalent of over $1.3 million -- and the promise of "professional and technical support" to scale up their innovations.
五名获奖者都将获得100万英镑——相当于130多万美元——并承诺提供“专业和技术支持”，以扩大他们的创新。
Costa Rica won for its scheme to pay local citizens to protect and restore rainforests and local eco-systems, a system that the prize committee credits for having already reversed decades of deforestation.
哥斯达黎加获奖的原因是其向当地居民支付资金以保护和恢复热带雨林和当地生态系统的计划，该计划被诺贝尔奖委员会称赞为扭转了数十年来的森林砍伐。
Indian organization Takachar's innovation was a technology that attaches to tractors and reduces smoke emissions by up to 98% while converting the residue into new products.
印度塔卡查组织的创新是一项技术，它可以附着在拖拉机上，在将残留物转化为新产品的同时，可以减少高达98%的烟雾排放。
Coral Vita in the Bahamas won for its method of accelerating coral regrowth by growing it first on land and then replanting on depleted underwater reefs.
巴哈马群岛的Coral Vita因其加速珊瑚再生的方法而获奖，该方法首先在陆地上种植珊瑚，然后在枯竭的水下珊瑚礁上重新种植。
The entire city of Milan was recognized for "Food Hubs" approach to reducing food waste and distributing to the needy food that would be otherwise be wasted by restaurants and supermarkets.
米兰整个城市因“食物中心”的方法而获得认可，该方法旨在减少食物浪费，并将原本会被餐馆和超市浪费的食物分发给需要的人。
And a Thai, German and Italian group won for its AEM Electrolyser, a technology that turns renewable electricity into emission-free hydrogen gas.
泰国、德国和意大利的一家集团也凭借AEM 电解技术获奖，这是一项将可再生电力转化为零排放氢气的技术。
The winners were announced Sunday at an glittering awards ceremony at London's Alexandra Palace -- in what Kensington Palace called "the most sustainable event of its kind."
获奖名单于周日在伦敦亚历山德拉宫举行的颁奖典礼上公布。肯辛顿宫称，这是“这类活动中最为可持续的。”
"We are alive in the most consequential time in human history -- the actions we choose or choose not to take in the next 10 years will determine the fate of the planet for the next thousand," William said in a short film recorded in the London Eye for the awards ceremony.
“我们生活在人类历史上最重要的时间,我们选择或选择不采取的行动在未来10年将决定地球的命运在接下来的几千,”威廉在伦敦眼拍摄的一个颁奖典礼短片上说道。
"A decade doesn't seem long, but humankind has an outstanding record of being able to solve the unsolvable."
“十年似乎并不长，但人类在解决无法解决的问题方面已经有了卓越的记录。”
William continued that "many of the answers are already out there... but we need everyone -- from all parts of society -- to raise their ambition and unite in repairing our planet."
威廉继续说道:“很多答案已经在那里了……但我们需要每个人——来自社会各个方面的人——树立雄心，团结起来修复我们的地球。”
"The future is ours to determine. And if we set our minds to it, nothing is impossible," he added.
“未来由我们来决定。如果我们下定决心，没有什么是不可能的。”
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