Prince Charles warned business leaders that they must make the environment more affordable to combat the "impending catastrophe" of climate change.
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, he asked politicians and business leaders what added value added wealth was "if there was nothing you could do but watch the fire burn".
Charles used his speech to launch a new sustainable market initiative, a project designed to encourage the private sector to become more environmentally friendly.
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As temperatures drop in Florida, more and more iguanas fall to the ground.Prince Charles warned business leaders that they must make the environment more affordable to combat the "impending catastrophe" of climate change.
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, he asked politicians and business leaders what added value prosperity had "if all you could do was watch the fire burn".
Charles used his speech to launch a new sustainable markets initiative, a project designed to encourage the private sector to become more environmentally friendly.
A community in the Ivory Coast has partnered with UNICEF to turn waste into brick for schools.
Classrooms cost almost half the price of traditional building materials and can be built with a simple hammer. Since 2018, plastic waste has become 26 classrooms.
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The 17-year-old activist told world leaders that "playing with numbers" would not be enough.
President Donald Trump used his speech at the World Economic Forum to discuss the success of the US economy and criticized what his critics considered alarming.
In a search for activist Greta Thunberg and other climate protesters, Trump said: "We have to reject the eternal prophets of doom."
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The Swedish climate activist and the US president gave very different speeches in Davos.