A longtime supporter of environmental causes, Prince Charles did not fail to remind the World Economic Forum in Davos that it was time to take action in response to the climate crisis on Wednesday. The son of Elizabeth II even met the Swedish Greta Thunberg.
"What good is all the money generated in the world by continuing to do business as if nothing had happened, by changing nothing if not watching that it does not burn under catastrophic conditions? Exclaimed Charles before the world elite gathered in this Graubünden ski resort in Switzerland. A direct reference to the powerful fires that have ravaged Australia in recent months.
Private interview with Greta Thunberg
Prince Charles has also launched his Sustainable Markets Initiative platform in Davos, designed to encourage the private sector to favor greener means of supporting growth. "I need your help (...) and your practical skills to make sure that the private sector will lead us out of the reach of the catastrophe in which we are rushing," he insisted before an audience of big bosses . “We cannot continue to waste time. The only limit is our willingness to act and the time to act has come, ”he concluded.
After his speech, Charles had a private interview with Greta Thunberg, who had launched the day before a shrill call to order in front of the Forum, stressing that "our house is still burning".
In another register, Donald Trump had castigated Tuesday in Davos "the eternal prophets of doom and their predictions of apocalypse", spades transparent towards Greta Thunberg, present in the audience. Prince Charles, who has alerted politicians for years about the climatic dangers, does he also feel concerned by the attacks by the host of the White House? "Ha! Well observed! He replied, laughing.
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