Prince Charles urges business to put planet and people first

[webfact]

Prince Charles urges business to put planet and people first

 

FILE PHOTO: Britain's Prince Charles visits Royal Mail's Delivery Office in Cirencester, Britain December 18, 2020. Geoff Caddick/Pool via REUTERS

 

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Prince Charles will tell businesses on Monday they must put the planet and its people first as he launches a new charter of sustainability backed by some major global companies.

 

The new "Terra Carta" - evoking England's ancient Magna Carta that defined citizens' rights eight centuries ago - comprises nearly 100 actions that signatory companies must take for a sustainable future.

 

"I am making an urgent appeal to leaders, from all sectors and from around the world, to give their support to this 'Terra Carta', to bring prosperity into harmony with nature, people and planet over the coming decade," Charles will say, according to advance excerpts from his speech.

 

Charles, 72, has championed environmental causes for decades and has warned that global warming and climate change are the greatest threats to humanity.

 

"I can only encourage, in particular, those in industry and finance to provide practical leadership to this common project, as only they are able to mobilize the innovation, scale and resources that are required to transform our global economy," he will say.

 

Bank of America , AstraZeneca, HSBC and BP are among the companies backing the Terra Carta, which was designed by Apple Inc's former chief designer Jony Ive and his company LoveFrom.

 

(Reporting by Andy Bruce; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2021-01-11

 

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[steve187]

good for Charles, a Monarch in Waiting, will he ever rule

[Natai Beach]

58 minutes ago, webfact said:

Charles, 72, has championed environmental causes for decades

Nice thoughts but nobody listens Charles. He just doesn’t have “it”.

 

He like the boring bloke at the party nobody wants to get stuck talking to. 

The opposite of Great Thunberg, whose every sentence is reported and talked about/debated. 
 

 

[Chomper Higgot]

18 minutes ago, Natai Beach said:

Nice thoughts but nobody listens Charles. He just doesn’t have “it”.

 

He like the boring bloke at the party nobody wants to get stuck talking to. 

The opposite of Great Thunberg, whose every sentence is reported and talked about/debated. 
 

 

Quite the contrary.

 

Prince Charles has for decades spoken out on matters of the environment, development and social deprivation, issues his voice has helped enter mainstream discussion.

 

The Prince’s Trust, that he founded in the mid seventies has from its inception been at the forefront of providing non judgmental help and guidance to  young people struggling with problems arising from poverty, crime, drug abuse, homelessness,  physical and mental illness. Work that is achieved by people listening to Prince Charles and volunteering their time, energy and skills to help others in need.

 

People absolutely do listen to Prince Charles.

 

Though perhaps not those men fixated on Thunberg to the point they bluster her name out every time they come across the terms ‘environment’ or ‘climate change’.