Prince of Wales Protects the Rainforests
Posted by carrie_roll
Check out our video below for the Prince’s Rainforests Project:
Something happened with the webcam when we were recording so that both the audio and video quality ended up funny, but we just left it, because we thought it was funny.
But the cause is very serious. Learn more about the Prince’s Rainforest Project below:
Throughout this year the Prince’s Rainforests Project be working to raise awareness of the link between rainforest destruction and climate change and the need for urgent action to stop deforestation.
The Prince’s Rainforests Project is working with governments, businesses and non-profit organisations to find solutions to deforestation and to ensure that an Emergency Package for rainforests is agreed on ahead of the climate change talks in Copenhagen in December.
And with your help, support, and action, our chances of success just became all the more likely. The number of signatories will be shared with our partnership of governments, businesses and non-profits in December at the time of the climate change negotiations in Copenhagen, where the next global climate change agreement will be determined.
The Prince’s Rainforests Project (PRP) was set up in 2007 by HRH The Prince of Wales following reports from leading climate change experts, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, to promote awareness of the urgent need to take action against tropical deforestation. The Prince of Wales has long been concerned about climate change and about how destruction of the world’s rainforests contributes to rising temperatures and sea levels.
We are working with governments, businesses and non-profit organisations around the world to find solutions to deforestation – and to find them fast – with the ambition of ‘making the trees worth more alive than dead’.
“If deforestation can be stopped in its tracks, then we will be able to buy ourselves some much-needed time to build the low carbon economies on which our futures depend. I have endeavoured to create a global public, private and NGO partnership to discover an innovative means of halting tropical deforestation. Success would literally transform the situation for our children and grandchildren and for every species on the planet.” – HRH The Prince of Wales
Objectives
The PRP’s work is focused on two very specific aims. The first is to raise awareness of the damaging effects of deforestation for everyone. The second is to identify appropriate incentives that will encourage rainforest nations to stop burning down vast areas of valuable forests.
Raising awareness
Destruction of the rainforests has very real and very serious consequences for us all – today and tomorrow. The PRP has launched a global awareness campaign to improve understanding of the link between rainforests and climate change and the need for urgent action to stop deforestation.
So do your bit and sign up to show your support today! It only takes a moment to help us to spread the message around the world…
http://www.rainforestsos.org
Identifying incentives to stop deforestation
Since the Project was set up, we have worked hard to understand the economic reasons for deforestation in rainforest nations. We wanted to find a fair and effective way to encourage rainforest nations to protect, rather than destroy, their forests – and to identify ways to fund that approach.
In particular, we have identified the need for an Emergency Package of funding for rainforest nations to help protect their rainforests and motivate them to move away from deforestation in favour of more environmentally friendly economic development activity.
On 1st April 2009, The Prince of Wales hosted an historic meeting of world leaders on forests and climate change, at which it was agreed an international Working Group would be formed to examine this Emergency Package proposal.
4 Responses to “Prince of Wales Protects the Rainforests”
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TeOra says:
The energy all of his countless massive castles use to heat and maintain plus all the rainforests cut down to furnish them make Prince of Wales a repeat offender of wasted energy and resources so rightly so he should be practising what he preaches not just paying lip service by promoting environmental concerns
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akua says:
To the Prince of Wales!
Please give back the Land you/family think you own, to the rightful owners and you will see everything will become normal, environmental friendly.
Gladly, one day we will invite you to show you our HOME.
First, hand over AFRICA.
Remember, we also love NATURE just like you.
akua -
to the prince of Wales!
Please talk to your friend mr. Museveni and ask him to stop cloud seeding, before he turns my country in to a dessert.
appreciate your help akua
I find it is a very big offense against all peoples of nature. A HATE- CRIME.
Had he and his friends stayed away, not one leaf or animal would be missing today.
The real agenda behind his sudden concern, is for private gains. Chasing the inhabitants away from their HOME. Why not asked them about the use of every plant and animal.
His father do not like human beings too: he has said, he wanted to reincarnate as a virus to wipe out most of the population on this planet. Like Father… Like son. akua