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The Prince of Wales has shown a strong personal interest in environmental issues for decades. The main themes to which he most often returns are the need for sustainable development, for responsible stewardship of our natural resources and for global co-operation to protect our environmental heritage.

His Royal Highness has been prescient in generating action from business leaders both in the UK and internationally to help combat climate change. Through his University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership (CPSL) His Royal Highness brings together business leaders and key public sector and civil society figures to understand and develop strategic responses to the sustainability challenges facing business and society.

The Programme runs annual senior executives seminars in Cambridge, Brussels, Atlanta, Cape Town and Sydney. The programme has an influential alumni network of over 1700 senior figures drawn from over 40 countries, and 400 organisations.

Visit the website for further information or find out more about The Prince of Wales's Business and Sustainability Programme.

In addition HRH The Prince of Wales established the International Sustainability Unit (ISU) to facilitate consensus on how to resolve some of the key environmental challenges facing the world - such as food security, ecosystem resilience and the depletion of Natural Capital.

While continuing to monitor progress on the tropical forest finance package agreed in Oslo in May 2010, the ISU has been developing two further significant workstreams; sustainable agriculture and marine ecosystems. The ISU seeks to advance possible solutions by convening the public, private and NGO sectors.

Although not one of The Prince’s Charities, The Prince’s ISU is a subsidiary of the Prince of Wales’s Charitable Foundation.

Visit the website of the International Sustainability Unit at www.pcfisu.org

Entries by HRH The Prince of Wales

Responsible Business and Enterprise

(22) Comments | Posted 17 June 2013 | (00:00)

All of my efforts over the past forty years have been concerned essentially with one central principle - the well-being of the individual. Not the isolated individual. My emphasis has constantly been on the individual within community. People do not thrive without the support of a community so, in my...

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Education and Young People

(119) Comments | Posted 10 June 2013 | (00:00)

One of the most important aspects of peoples' lives I have been concerned with for very nearly 40 years is the encouragement and empowering of young people.

I have always been fascinated by the meaning of the word "educate." It does not mean to teach or train. It comes...

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Introducing 'Global Sustainability'

(493) Comments | Posted 3 June 2013 | (00:00)

I have long been deeply concerned about the effect our modern, highly industrialised approach is having on nature's capacity to sustain life on Earth. There is a growing set of alarming problems which, if not addressed with real urgency, will severely affect nature's capacity to keep her life support systems...

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Address to the Nobel Laureates Event at the Sustainable Development Conference Rio+20

(116) Comments | Posted 17 December 2012 | (23:00)

Below is a transcript and video of the address made by His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales to the Nobel Laureates Event at the Sustainable Development Conference Rio +20 today by kind permission of His Royal Highness.

Ladies and gentlemen, I am most flattered to have been invited to...

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Video Message for the Deforestation Event at the Sustainable Development Conference Rio+20 Summit

(28) Comments | Posted 21 June 2012 | (20:01)

Ladies and gentlemen, I am most flattered to be invited to open proceedings at this Avoided Deforestation Partners meeting and I am so sorry that I cannot be with you today. Needless to say, I have followed very closely the debates and decisions of the various Earth Summits since the...

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Video Message to the Accounting 4 Sustainability (A4S) Event at the Rio+20 Summit

(90) Comments | Posted 20 June 2012 | (14:00)

Ladies and Gentlemen, I am only sorry that circumstances prevent me from being with you today, but such is the importance of the task you are discussing, I wanted to help launch this event - even if it has to be in such a disembodied fashion!

I notice, by the...

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