Prince Charles to launch campaign against climate change

21 Oct 2007, 1313 hrs IST,PTI

LONDON: It seems that Prince Charles is all set to ascend to the green throne and wage a war against climate change later this week.

Yes, in a bid to halt mass deforestation, the Prince of Wales will launch an organisation which calls for a new green economics that recognises the world's rainforests are worth more alive than dead, The Guardian reported on Sunday.

The Rainforests Project will bring together scientists and leaders from the developing world to stop deforestation -- a bigger contributor to global warming than the world's entire transport sector, including aviation.

According to Andrew Mitchell, the Senior Adviser to the Rainforests Project which has already raised one million pounds from 12 private sector companies in Britain, "The Prince of Wales is trying to pull the best brains in the world together.

"The forests have huge value which we all use but don't pay for. They store gigantic amounts of carbon in their roots, trees and branches; twice as much carbon as there is in the atmosphere. The Amazon alone stores 67 billion tonnes of carbon."

Prince Charles, who has a long record of environmental campaigning, had already described the threat to the planet as "the greatest challenge to face man".

posted from India Times on ClimateConcern