On 9 February Britain’s Prince Charles joined senior EU leaders at the Low Carbon Prosperity Summit at the European Parliament in Brussels. The EU leaders gathered to talk about how Europe and the world can create a low carbon economy. Prince Charles said economic growth should be decoupled from ever greater environmental destruction.
In a speech ranging across climate change, agriculture, the rainforest, marine life and accounting, the Prince of Wales noted that the equivalent of 24,000 football pitches of rainforest a day is still being destroyed and warned that the very fabric of the earth's life support system is in danger of collapsing. "Stopping deforestation is not a lifestyle choice, it is critical," he said.
The Prince called for a change in approach that is focused on the resilience of natural capital. "We need to decouple economic growth from growth in consumption and we have to do more today to avert the catastrophes of tomorrow," he remarked.
Source: European Parliament
