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Charlotte Gill
Charlotte Gill regularly publishes about the use of taxpayers’ money to fund left-wing causes and left-wing researchers.
The last week has been a very busy one for US billionaire Mike Bloomberg.
First he hosted (the eponymous) Bloomberg Philanthropy’s CityLab event in Madrid, alongside his favourite mayor, Sadiq Khan. Then on Thursday he was in New York City to receive King Charles III and Queen Camilla at the September 11th Memorial.
Leaving aside the solemnity of the occasion, it’s certainly not the first time Bloomberg has been close to members of the Royal Family; in fact, he has been highly adept at making inroads over the last decade.
Nowhere is this more obvious than his involvement in the Earthshot Prize, founded by Prince William in 2020, which sees five people or groups awarded £1 million each in prize money for fighting climate change. In addition they are offered “a global network of professional and technical support to scale [their] cutting-edge environmental solutions”.
This is where organisations such as those run by Bloomberg come in. Bloomberg Philanthropies is a “Founding Partner” – meaning it acts as a strategic funding partner – of the Earthshot Prize, along with Amazon, the Bezos Earth Fund and Uber. Bloomberg is also part of Earshot’s “Global Alliance”, which includes C40 Cities (of which Mike Bloomberg is on the board and Sadiq Khan is co-chair), Common Purpose, Greenpeace, IKEA, the UN Environment Programme, World Economic Forum and WWF.
Furthermore, Mike Bloomberg is a “Global Advisor” to the winners of Earthshot Prize.
Despite many organisations being involved in the Earthshot Prize, you’d think it had become the “Mike Bloomberg and Prince William Prize”. Last year Bloomberg was centre stage in the proceedings, hosting the Earthshot Prize winners and finalists at his headquarters in London:
Prince William was snapped with the words “Bloomberg Philanthropies” in the background – the text larger than that used for the Earthshot Prize.
It was a great win for Brand Bloomberg, but a PR disaster for William who seems to be following in the footsteps of his very political father – the man who decided to activate a “climate countdown clock” with Sadiq Khan shortly after becoming King.
Through their connection to Bloomberg, the Royal Family is inadvertently (or consciously) siding with the Democrat Establishment, of which Bloomberg is very much part. In 2020, for instance, he stood to be the Democrat candidate for the presidential election, losing out to Biden. He is tied up with the UN and WHO.
Much of Bloomberg’s ambitions have been realised through Khan, who is co-chair of C40 Cities – a collaboration of cities that are working towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals. This globalist outfit, as well as having its own awards, is funded by, among others, Bloomberg Philanthropies and Bloomberg is president of the board of eirectors for C40 Cities.
In short, the Royal Family is failing in its duty to uphold political neutrality. Prince William would do well to shed the Earthshot Prize, Mike Bloomberg and avoid the environmental activism of his father.
This article was originally published by the Daily Sceptic.
