Prince Charles: global pact on climate change could be Magna Carta for Earth

(guardian-, 26 Jan 2015) Prince of Wales said this year marked potentially the last chance to save the world from the perils of global warming.

A new global pact on climate change, due to be signed this year in Paris, should be a “Magna Carta for the Earth”, Prince Charles has urged.

He said this year marked potentially the “last chance” to save the world from the perils of global warming, with the Paris conference and the United Nations’ plan to replace the millennium development goals with a new set of sustainable development targets. “We simply cannot let this opportunity go to waste. There is just too much at stake, and has been for far too long.”

He told a meeting of forestry and climate experts in London: “In the 800th anniversary year of the Magna Carta, perhaps this year’s agreement of the new sustainable development goals and a new climate agreement in Paris should be seen as a new Magna Carta for the Earth, and humanity’s relationship with it.”

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guardian-, 26 Jan 2015: Prince Charles: global pact on climate change could be Magna Carta for Earth