The Prince of Wales will travel to the Copenhagen climate change conference to deliver an address to delegates from 192 countries.
Prince Charles accepted an invitation from the Danish Government to speak at the start of the final four days of negotiations. He will travel to the Danish capital in a seven-seat RAF aircraft. His spokeswoman said that it was not possible to travel on a scheduled flight because of prior engagements and the risk of being delayed.
He will speak on December 15, during the second week of the two-week conference. The main theme of his speech is likely to be saving the world’s rainforests. In 2007 he created a campaign for funding from wealthy countries to pay rainforest nations to reduce the rate at which they chop down trees.
A total of 98 world leaders have said that they will attend the conference, meaning that more than half the countries will be represented either by their prime minister or president.
But most leaders will not arrive until December 17 and President Obama will be making only a day trip to Copenhagen on December 9. This means that the Prince will address an audience consisting largely of environment ministers and civil servants.
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In Brazil earlier this year the Prince warned that fighting global warming should have a higher priority on the world’s agenda than fighting poverty, and that there were only eight years left to save the planet.