Watch Prince William Emma Watson Benedict Cumberbatch Unite for Meaningful Cause

Can you tell us when, how and why you came up with the brushwork? If it's alright, I'd like to share a story, which is slightly at my own expense. It was very early on when I just got cast in the Harry Potter films. My mother lived in here, but at some point the precedent, the brother, lived. One morning, she cracked open the windows of the living room and saw that there were all of these men outside with very rare lenses. She thought, oh, poor as they are, what's happened? Oh my goodness. So she went outside to address the men with the long lenses and I snuck out to go the other way. It turned out that the men with the long lenses were actually not there for me. They were there for a very rare bird, which is called a red kite. They were trying to break into my back garden because they thought that one of these red kites was in our back garden. The lovely ending to the story is that my mum eventually allowed these men into our home and into our back garden to eat these birds. The really cool story is that the red kite population is the most extinct in Oxfordshire. Conservationists have managed to get them back. If you want to drive through Oxfordshire, you want to look at the sky. One of these amazing birds is called the sport tail. That is the direct result of these incredibly passionate men with long lenses who wanted to break into our back garden. Sometimes, as you and I were talking about earlier, men with long lenses only rarely can be a good thing. They can sometimes when they really care about birders. We love birders. Birders are great. It wasn't similar to what we saw with bird people. When we do the right thing, we attract the right people. I can't tell you how psyched they were about this bird. They just were so excited and in love. It's through our love of nature and our love for these beings that anything is possible. Can we talk more about your music and what you do? Sure. I'm not an environmental scientist. I'm not a professor or a documentarian, but I am a human being on planet Earth. I think the world of what Open Planet is is a studio that produces some of the most extraordinary, inspiring, beautiful and devastating music in wildlife documentary making. When they approached me to print this very unusual and different strain of documentary, I jumped at the chance. This is about positivity. This is about putting out the message that, yes, we've been a bit naughty. We've done things in the wrong way, but we are still a part of nature, not a part of fog. If we learn to live in harmony with it, green is the new gold. We have systems we can reshape. It will not only benefit the world that we are destroying through habitat loss, through species extinction and extraction of materials, but we can actually value nature alive more than it is dead. The elephant, for example, the tusk of the elephant, it's less valuable than an elephant is as nature's natural engineer, rooting up the ground, letting grasses in the savannah grow, which become huge carbon sinks, letting waterways flow, and pushing a slight push in the savannah. That then functions as an ecosystem, but also as a carbon sink, and the world benefits from that much more than either. It's about trying to reshape values. I just found another bit, how to live on Earth, three things. How to feed our future. Different ways of looking at scaling up the ability to have protein in our diet. I'm not scolding those that are in livestock management or ranching, but actually pointing to new ways of doing that, and also new ways of using that land, and new ways of using protein. There is such a thing in this film as air protein. Then how to value nature. Putting a system online within economics, to speak to this room in particular about what we need to structure a new economy where green is the new gold, and it's value in terms of what we place on it, in terms of a big school of money. Thirdly, how to be human, how to feel human. How to connect with nature. How to realize that we are a part of it and not a part of it. Your Royal Highness, if I could take you back to when you founded United for Wildlife, what was your vision and your hope for wildlife? I just said that my documentary was cut for Benedict's, so this is a new day today. His is launching tonight. His is much better than mine. Ten years ago, I sat with a number of these wonderful people in this room. We went to be as bold as we could be, in terms of reaching out to a part of society that probably hadn't been included in all the conversations around nature and the environment. Many of them here care deeply about it personally, but in terms of their structures and their systems, it's very hard for them to pull the levers to make people part of their business, connect to the same way we would like them to, to have that transformational impact in nature and the environment. We started with 40 business leaders, but now, as you can see, nearly 300. We started with transport, financial transport, and the aviation sector. Slowly but surely, trying to identify and showcase really good examples where businesses can accelerate and strengthen their supply chains, make their business more resilient to pressures, and showcase them where they think they're actually running an extremely good organisation that's protecting nature. Actually, they have a number of holes that they weren't aware of. It's been a bit of a learning curve for everyone and educating everyone in what is needed and where the support can be. The collaboration amongst the sectors has been amazing, bearing in mind many of them are competitors. Getting over some of those hurdles initially and saying, guys, you can be the change-makers here. This is your planet to fix as well. This can really transform your businesses as well as protecting nature. That was ultimately the message of courage and resilience. Also, I think the wonderful thing of the filter is, as Benedict was saying, it really is my goal because it's also cost-effective when you get the procurement right and all of the things that we're talking about this morning. Definitely. So much of what we're going to talk about this morning is not necessarily about having a passion for nature, having a passion for the environment. This is stuff that will make your businesses stronger, better, more resilient, and also protect your reputations long-term, where I know part of that is the strategic risk for all businesses who care about who they're connected to, what's happening under their name, under their banner. United Wildlife has been working with all of you for so many years with the task force to make sure that you're covered, you know where you're going, you know what your supply chain is doing, you know where your weaknesses are, and I think that's been a really two-way process where we've enjoyed bringing those people into a big family, but hopefully they've also enjoyed being taken on that journey and shown where they can make even bigger strides in their businesses. Thank you so much. So, Emma, you know I love fashion, and I love the work that you do in fashion, so can you tell me where the overlap is in terms of how the fashion world and all of the damage that unfortunately it is doing to our planet overlaps with wildlife trafficking? It's a huge overlap. Two to three billion animals are slaughtered annually for fur, for skin, for feathers, coral, ivory, you name it. And so that's the direct way that it's connected, but the indirect way that it's connected too, which is the fashion industry is one of the most exposed to in the world, actually creates more emissions than evolution. But as someone who actually loves fashion, and it's such a huge part of what I do, what's exciting is that this is a huge place where we can actually have impact. The wildlife trade is sort of being exposed to the iceberg in a way, but yeah, it's a place where we can have huge, huge, huge impact too. The people and the planet, and we can really turn things around here and actively engage and make active decisions as consumers and understand what our decision is. It's a huge difference, and in fact, Benedict, you and Emma could do a lot together. Yes, a little bit. We've partnered with RENION, a party that manages upcyclization waste plastics in landfills, and they've said support conservation efforts, and I'm the one on which I was speaking, and I think it's a great example of that, where they are harvesting coral that's huge, and that's a huge resistance to any kind of weather event. And in a more political environment, we've partnered to alleviate the ecosystem, the protection of the landfill, the carbon sinking, and the impact of trash on coral reefs. So, yeah, that's one thing. It's a lot deeper. It's a lot deeper, and I think part of hopefully what the film is doing and how to develop is to give support, not just to consumers to make their choices, but also to brands and business leaders, policy makers and advisors, into how to reshape and restructure the story time to make this new economy actually viable, and not just something we're going to recycle and make things feel a little bit better once we get out of the business as normal. Because we can't do that anymore. We can't. There's nothing we can do. Absolutely. So, Your Royal Highness, with that in mind, I want to paint a phenomenon when they go back to their doings, inspired by everything that they learn today, what is the one argument they should not make? Well, June, that's a tricky one. There are several arguments that you would make, but I think one particular argument is about what I was just touching on, which is the idea that this is going to make your business stronger, better, more sustainable, and more long-term health. We talked about the competition amongst the sector, but actually that collaboration has been hugely impressive. And being able to depend on each other, support each other, find the gaps in the areas you can partner on for the greater good, if you like, and the health of your business is ultimately the most important thing you can do. I know many of you, as CEOs, you have people you have to work with above, you have people you have to deal with below, you have to look at it like a meat and a sandwich. However, you are the CEOs, you have the power to influence, your voice matters in the oil business, your direction matters, and here, more than anything, the leadership matters. Many of you are exemplary in what you do, but I think many of you could be more ambitious and courageous in what you do for the planet, for the environment, and for the other parts of life. I know many of you get grief when you go home from your children, which I've heard many times. Many don't want to look themselves in the mirror when they wake up and know that the business that they're leading is something that their children would also be proud of in the future. Well, we only have a few minutes left, unfortunately, and so I think it's only right that, you know, with the theme of your film, Benedict, being one that is optimistic and hopeful, so Emma, first, do you want to take a moment or a line of optimism you want to leave on with your film? I suppose just to encourage businesses and storytellers to really be encouraged by what can be done. I think, I don't know if anyone is still funding Dory or if their children are still funding Nemo, but I love, for example, the story of the film, which, as a result, all of these young people were so horrified by the capture of Dory that the blue-tongued fish is now protected by conservationists and by children who love this fish alike. Storytelling is really powerful, and the story that you tell as a brand and the transparency you have in the way that you talk around these issues matters. It matters to young people, and I would just like to say, be the emperor penguin. Be the emperor penguin. We can be the emperor penguin. Things can be done, and some good things are being done. Just that it's time to make some positive noise. It's time to make people in this room and beyond it, people that you're helping that you can have agency in a time where the problems and the obstacles seem absolutely insurmountable. It's not true. We can all make a difference, every single one of us, from what we wear, what we consume, how we cause change within our business and our communities, and we can do that by convening in moments like this, and through storytelling, hopefully my film will be able to be accessible for all of you, and YouTube later on in the year as an educational tool to give people the confidence to make real world change. And green is the new gold. Yes, of course. I think be the leader you wanted to be when you were growing up, not the one you are just right now. Touch into what you were when you were a child and what you wanted to see in the world and bring those values to life as a CEO. I think, more specifically, technology and innovation, we're seeing such a change in that. Please embrace that. It's good. There's a lot here that we can do that can protect the planet and your businesses and everything in the same way. And the last point, I feel it's really important we end on this point, which is that the nature defendants that the other speakers were talking about, those people risking their lives day in, day out, protecting nature's front line, they are the reason we're all here talking about it, because they are protecting and holding alive the special precious things we care about all around the world. We owe them a certain duty to look after that planet and protect everything. We have a duty to do that. Thank you all so much for your commitment and your passion to protecting our planet and making our world better for the next generation. Thank you very much. Can we have a round of applause for our panel? Emma Watson, Benedict Cumberbatch, and His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales. Thank you.