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The Prince of Wales issued the warning at a Birkhall video address in Balmoral. Charles has been a long-time advocate for the fight against climate change, supporting numerous charities and projects. The Prince also met with teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg, who provided support.
In the video keynote address for Climate Week, Charles called for “quick and immediate action” on the climate crisis.
The week-long summit, which begins Monday, will be opened by the Prince, who is expected to call for more sustainable practices.
He added that the coronavirus pandemic had given the world a “window of opportunity” to change the economy and help create a more “sustainable and inclusive” future.
Charles said: “Without swift and immediate action, at an unprecedented pace and scale, we will lose the window of opportunity to ‘restart’ for … a more sustainable and inclusive future.”
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Charles went on to say that the current climate crisis poses a greater threat to the world than the coronavirus pandemic.
He added: “The crisis has been with us for too many years: denounced, denigrated and denied.
“Now it is rapidly turning into a global catastrophe that will dwarf the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.”
Charles previously tested positive for coronavirus in March, forcing him to isolate himself at his Birkhall home.
Charles also urged business and political leaders to embrace an environmentally sustainable future in January.
In a keynote address in Davos, Switzerland, Charles said that 2020 could be “the year we get on the right track” and that the private sector “will lift the world out of the impending catastrophe we have designed ourselves into.”
He added: “Do we want to go down in history as the people who did nothing to bring the world back to the brink, by trying to restore balance, when we could have? I don’t want to.
“Think for a moment, what good is all the extra wealth in the world gained from business as usual if you can’t do anything with it except watch it burn in catastrophic conditions.”
Charles met with Ms Thunberg at the Davos summit, and the prince described the activist as “remarkable”
He added to CNN at the time: “She represents one of the main reasons that I’ve been trying to put in all this effort all these years.
“I’ve always been concerned about the fact that so often, in terms of humanity, we leave things too late, so you have to hit a brick wall and experience a catastrophe before anything happens.”
The coronavirus pandemic caused lockdowns around the world, leading to a huge drop in greenhouse gases and air pollutants, but a University of Leeds study claimed it would have a “negligible” effect on global warming.
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