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a minister has said suggestions that the government ordered the king not to travel to the climate summit in egypt are simply not true. buckingham palace confirmed today that the king will not be attending the summit after seeking advice from downing street and said that there was agreement he should not attend. our royal correspondent sarah campbell has more. in november last year, the then prince charles was a conspicuous presence when the un s climate change conference, cop26, was held in glasgow. it was hardly surprising. he had been raising the issue for discussion long before climate change became a prominent political concern. later that month prince charles travelled to egypt, the location of cop27. the united kingdom will be with egypt in our struggle to protect our environment. was widely presumed that the king would want to attend egypt s cop27, but buckingham palace has said that will not be the case. the sunday times quoted a senior palace is also said the prime m ....
King charles will not attend the cop 27 climate change conference in egypt next month, buckingham palace has confirmed. it follows reports that the uk prime minister liz truss had advised him to stay away. in response, the palace confirmed advice had been sought by the monarch and given by liz truss. the king, who s campaigned for environmental causes for decades, had been planning to attend. let s speak to george monbiot, the guardian columnist, and environmental campaigner. how much of a difference does the presence or absence of the king make at an event like that? it is presence or absence of the king make at an event like that? at an event like that? it is hard to tell. it at an event like that? it is hard to tell- it can at an event like that? it is hard to tell. it can have at an event like that? it is hard to tell. it can have significant - tell. it can have significant symbolic importance. i don t hold out much hope for the cop26 process, but having him there, well, you n ....
If there s one message coming out of cop it is that we have a loss of lined actors in the world together and there is a real risk that the whole is less than the sum of its parts so i would say the most important thing we are doing and i think the energy transition mechanism focused on coal is a great example, the most important thing we are doing is an institution is to sit in the middle of these various actors, leveraging our unique role in the ecosystem to try and create vehicles and platforms that letters will accomplish our mutually shared and announced objectives. does will accomplish our mutually shared and announced objectives. and announced ob ectives. does the absence of china i and announced objectives. does the absence of china and and announced objectives. does the absence of china and russia - and announced objectives. does the absence of china and russia at i absence of china and russia at cop26, what does their absence mean? well, i can t speak to the cop26 process bu ....
Pre cop. pre-cop ndcs unga. and that is all about the whole cop26 process. what do you think when you look at that process and you hear all that stuff? well, for instance, there s a lot of acronyms. yes. a lot ofjargon. a lot of people won t understand what is going on. ithink. again, people like to confuse one another with clever acronyms. it happens all the time. and i think for cop to communicate very clearly and very honestly what the problems are and what the solutions are going to be is critical. we can t have more clever speech and clever words but not enough action. that is why the earthshot prize is so important because we are trying to create action. are you going to go to cop? i will be at cop, and hopefully, the finalists for the awards will be at cop, too. and you have been on all our tv screens with the five part documentary you have done ....
The other day there, oh, yeah, we ve had some really important pre-cop ndcs unga. pre cop. pre-cop ndcs unga. and that is all about the whole cop26 process. what do you think when you look at that process and you hear all that stuff? well, for instance, there s a lot of acronyms. yes. a lot ofjargon. a lot of people won t understand what is going on. ithink. again, people like to confuse one another with clever acronyms. it happens all the time. and i think for cop to communicate very clearly and very honestly what the problems are and what the solutions are going to be is critical. we can t have more clever speech and clever words but not enough action. that is why the earthshot prize is so important because we are trying to create action. are you going to go to cop? i will be at cop, and hopefully, the finalists for the awards will be at cop, too. and you have been on all our tv screens with the five part documentary you have done with sir david attenborough which has been on bbc o ....