Prince Charles receives climate change award

Prince Charles received an award on Friday for his work in preventing world climate change.

The government of the Brazilian state of Amazonas and an environmental sponsorship group, The Friends of the Forest and Climate, presented it jointly.

Prince Charles was said to be deeply honoured to win the award.

He has crusaded on climate issues for twenty years and started his Rainforests Project in 2007.

The Prince and the Duchess of Cornwall made their first visit to the Amazon rainforest during their South American tour.

They flew on Friday from Brasilia, the capital, to Manaus, the state capital, for several engagements on the sixth day of the official tour.

State governors at the Palacio Rio Negro met the Prince and Camilla.

The governors are all from states that contain the Amazon rainforest.

It was here that the award was made.

The 2008 award was given to the President of Fifa, Sepp Blatter, for setting up ecofriendly 2014 soccer World Cup in Brazil.

Nadia Ferreira, secretary of Environment and Sustainable Development of the Amazonas government, said that Prince Charles’s concern for the Amazon and his involvement in the Amazon rainforest demonstrates his commitment to assisting the continuing development of the area.

The Royal couple were scheduled to meet Forest Peoples’ Alliance (FPA) members later today. Chico Mendes formed this in 1987.

The FPA takes on the threats of globalisation and climate change.

A principal reason for the visit to Brazil of the Royal couple is to urge for pressing action worldwide on global warming and stopping the extensive deforestation of the world’s largest rainforest.

In Rio de Janeiro on Thursday, Prince Charles, in a speech to more than 200 business leaders, said that the human race has 100 months or less to save the planet from a catastrophe brought on by climate changes.

The full impact of global warming will result in lack of water, unreliable food production, massive migrations of people escaping flooding or droughts, and, inevitably increasing social unrest and probable conflict, making today’s global problems look trivial.

Prince Charles and Camilla, who have already visited Chile, will fly to Ecuador on Sunday and finish their ten-day visit on the Galapagos Islands.