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The Prince of Wales has warned that we will need “four planets like Earth to survive or provide enough for everyone.”
Speaking today for Climate Week 2020, Her Royal Highness urged companies to focus on ‘green recovery’ after the coronavirus, adding that ‘there is a better world out there’.
Prince Charles said: “We have so degraded natural systems, ecosystems and biodiversity that it is increasingly impossible for nature to sustain us.
‘At the moment everything is take, take. Now we have reached the situation where we really need four planets like Earth to survive or provide enough for everyone.
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Climate activist Prince Charles (pictured) spoke for the second time Monday to launch Climate Week 2020. Royalty warned that the land had suffered lasting damage.
And there is a better world out there. We can operate our industries much better. ‘
He added that he was aware that many industries were already dealing with operations strained by the coronavirus pandemic, but due to ‘challenges’ like these ‘hitting us in the face’ he had noticed a renewed interest in the issues affecting the planet that sustains us. . .
Prince Charles, speaking via a recorded message from Balmoral, Aberdeenshire, said: ‘Industries have obviously had to focus on dealing with the immediate impact of this horrendous pandemic, but the fascinating thing is that I think a lot of people have still wanted fortunately focus on green recovery. ‘
In a keynote speech to Climate Week earlier today, the Prince of Wales also called for global commitments to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050 to be moved forward two decades, because the current target “ suggests that we have scope to to delay ”.
Throughout his career, Prince Charles (pictured) has highlighted environmental issues, now royalty is calling for government goals to be presented.
Charles’s comment, made in a speech to launch Climate Week, is at odds with the government’s plan to cut carbon emissions to zero in 30 years.
The heir to the throne, who has been an environmental activist since the early 1970s, said: ‘With the planetary emergency so critical, with the permafrost melting in Siberia, for example, producing dire effects on global warming, and with the Pantanal in Brazil being consumed by an unprecedented number of fires, we can no longer continue like this, as if there is no tomorrow or a final judgment for our abuse of nature.
‘So what do we do? We must now certainly get on the warpath, approaching our action from the perspective of a military-style campaign. In this way, working together, we can combat this very serious and urgent challenge.
“If we are determined to change our trajectory, we must start now by advancing our net zero target – I’m afraid 2050 simply suggests that we have room to fall behind.
Today’s launch of RE: TV sustainable video platform is expected to champion climate solutions
Today’s launch of the sustainable RE: TV video platform is expected to promote inspiring solutions from around the world.
The content of the site, curated by the Prince of Wales, will be divided into five defined sub-channels: Re: Imagine, Re: Design, Re: Balance, Re: Invigorate and Re: Invest – in the hopes of showing solutions to accelerate a further process Sustainable future.
Speaking on the RE: TV launch, Brian Moynihan, President and CEO of Bank of America, and co-chair of the Sustainable Markets Initiative, said: ‘We support Her Royal Highness’s vital work on the Sustainable Markets initiative because the sector The private sector can better create the conditions to align the flow of capital and other resources necessary to address the long-term goals of society, as defined by the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Early Monday, Prince Charles (pictured) delivered a keynote address for Climate Week 2020, declaring the ambitious 2030 target for nations to cut emissions.
“That is the goal of the Sustainable Markets Initiative: to harness the creativity, innovation, balance sheets and efforts of organizations committed to stakeholder capitalism and alignment with the SDGs, to bring the Prince’s vision to life. from Wales “.
The heir to the throne gave the ambitious 2030 target for nations to cut emissions, which he said is necessary “given the enormity of the problem we face.”
The prince also called for a financial recovery package, like the Marshall Plan that rebuilt postwar Europe, to help “nature, people and the planet.”
