King Charles III will travel to COP28 in the United Arab Emirates in Dubai, where he will deliver a speech on December 1 to open the climate conference, Buckingham Palace announced on Wednesday.
The 74-year-old ruler, a long-time environmental activist, will attend the opening ceremony at the invitation of Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE, and at the request of the British government, according to the palace .
He will deliver a keynote speech at the summit, which will run until December 12.
A regular at the COPs
“Global warming and the loss of biodiversity” are “challenges that threaten us all and can only be met if all of society works together in a spirit of action, partnership and commitment,” he said. said Wednesday from Kenya where he is on a state visit, speaking at the United Nations office in Nairobi.
Then Prince of Wales, Charles represented his mother Queen Elizabeth II at the COP26 organized two years ago in the United Kingdom, in Glasgow (Scotland).
However, he did not go to COP27 in Egypt, due, according to the British press, to the opposition of Prime Minister Liz Truss, who remained in power for 49 days.
Two hundred countries must come together at COP 28, one of the challenges of which lies in the creation of a fund to compensate for climate damage, the adoption of which in principle was considered the major result of COP27.