The King and Prince of Wales, standing side by side at the museum, were introduced to guests including environmentalists and climate change campaigners.<\/p>\n
Ed Miliband, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, greeted Prince William when he arrived at the museum. And former PM Theresa May spoke to the King about COP summits.<\/p>\n
Royal sources have described Prince William as stepping up to play an important role in “climate diplomacy”. <\/p>\n
This included speaking alongside President Emmanuel Macron of France and other world leaders at the Blue Economy and Finance Forum in Monaco earlier this year.<\/p>\n
The COP30 summit will dovetail with the prince’s own Earthshot environmental awards, which will finish in Rio de Janeiro the day before he attends the COP summit on 6 November.<\/p>\n
Last week the prince described the Earthshot finalists as “heroes of our time”.<\/p>\n
King Charles has been a key figure at previous climate summits, giving the opening address in Dubai for COP28, including the reminder: “The Earth does not belong to us, we belong to the Earth.”<\/p>\n
“I have spent a large proportion of my life trying to warn of the existential threats facing us over global warming, climate change and biodiversity loss,” the King told delegates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The King and Prince of Wales, standing side by side at the museum, were introduced to guests including…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7714,7713,533,2832,532,2831,7710,519,7711,7712],"class_list":{"0":"post-486397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-catherine","10":"tag-catherine-middleton","11":"tag-kate-middleton","12":"tag-prince-of-wales","13":"tag-prince-william","14":"tag-princess-of-wales","15":"tag-royal-families","16":"tag-royal-family","17":"tag-uk-royal-family","18":"tag-william"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}