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While he was the Prince of Wales, King Charles III had spent decades campaigning to promote actions on climate change and environmental issues. While some believe that the new monarch could
follow in the late Queen Elizabeth II's footsteps and be largely neutral on a whole host of issues, some friends and ex-advisors to Charles believe that he will continue to advocate for
this issue, even after becoming King. Long before the topics became mainstream, the King has been passionate about conservation, from tropical forests and goats, to sustainable farming
practices and water security. Within months of his becoming the Prince of Wales in 1969, the 20-year-old Prince Charles wrote to Prime Minister Harold Wilson, expressing concern about the
decline of salmon stacks in Scottish rivers. He wrote: "People are notoriously short-sighted when it comes to questions of wildlife." In recent years, he has considered global
warming as one of the greatest threats humanity has ever faced, and even attended the COP26 global climate summit in Glasgow fast year where world leaders drafted up new ambitious
commitments to limit global temperature rises to below 1.5 degrees. During that summit, he gave a speech warning that climate change poses "an even greater existential threat" than
Cavid 19, adding that humanity has to put itself on a "war-lik footing". Speaking to the BBC during the summit, he even sympathised with climate activists like Extinction
Rebellion, which have been criticised for blocking highways as part of a civil disobedience movement. He said: "People should really notice how despairing so many young people
are." He also warned that while tackling climate change will be very expensive, the risks of noting doing so are worse.: "It will be a disaster. It will be catastrophic. It is
already beginning to be catastrophic because nothing in nature can survive the stress that is created by these extremes of weather." READ MORE: EARTH ON BRINK OF FIVE ‘REALLY
WORRYING' TIPPING POINTS Tony Juniper, a long-term advisor to Charles and a veteran green campaigner hailed the new king as "possibly the most significant environmental figure of
all time". Chairman of Natural England, Mr Juniper has spoken of the "incredible depth" of the king's knowledge and the "absolutely enormous" impact he has had
on the climate movement. Meanwhile, Jonathan Porritt, former head of Friends of the Earth and an ex-adviser to the new king said: "Everything we know about how he has thought about his
accession, tells us he will be absolutely clear about his constitutional duties." Charles himself has acknowledged as the new monarch, it would no longer be possible for him to
"give as much of my time and energies to the charities and issues for which I care so deeply". DON'T MISS Musk tipped for major UK expansion with gigafactory takeover
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secretary, Julian Payne noted much of the work he did on climate change was away from the spotlight. He said: "The King is a convener, connecting people and organisations in ways that
open up possibilities and create solutions." He added that as King, Charles would invite "the best brains and the most experienced people and listen to their ideas and advice.
"I suspect it is a modus operandi that will continue as he takes on this new role. Meanwhile, a senior British politician told the BBC that while King Charles could make similar
speeches like the one he made in Glasgow, "you won't hear him expressing a view on fracking," adding "but I can imagine him making a speech on the need to take more
urgent action on climate."