Britain’s Prince William kicked around a football with Brazil’s Cafu and chatted with youth from around the world about their biggest environmental concerns on a visit to Rio de Janeiro on Monday.

The future king’s first visit to Brazil is centered around his annual Earthshot Prize which awards one million pounds ($1.3 million) to five pioneering projects tackling threats to the environment.

After three days in Rio he will fly to the Amazon rainforest to address global leaders at COP30 UN climate talks on behalf of his father King Charles.

Arriving just a week after 121 people were killed in a police raid against a gang in a favela near the international airport, the future king took a cable car up the famous Pao de Acucar (Sugarloaf Mountain) landmark.

William was handed the keys to t

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