Background to The Prince’s Rainforests Project
The Prince of Wales has long been concerned about climate change and about how destruction of the world’s rainforests contributes to rising temperatures and sea levels.
He set up The Prince’s Rainforests Project (PRP) in 2007, following reports from leading climate change experts - including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - about the need to find a way to slow the rate of tropical deforestation.
Since then, we have worked hard to understand the economic reasons for deforestation in rainforest nations. We wanted to find a fair and effective way to encourage rainforest nations to protect, rather than destroy, their forests - and to identify ways to fund that approach.
Gathering top level support for our proposal
The PRP has developed a proposal for emergency funding to help protect rainforests and to encourage rainforest nations to continue to develop without the need for deforestation.
On 1st April 2009, The Prince of Wales hosted an historic meeting of world leaders, who came together to discuss possible ways to reduce tropical deforestation. This meeting was attended by the President of the European Commission, three of the European leaders (Angela Merkel, Silvio Berlusconi and Nicolas Sarkozy), three British cabinet ministers, Hillary Clinton, Kevin Rudd, leaders or senior cabinet ministers of four rainforest nations – Brazil, Indonesia, Gabon and Guyana, the Prime Minister of Norway, Prime Minister of Japan, Secretary-General of the UN and President of the World Bank.
They agreed to form an international Working Group to consider the issue. This Working Group will study the PRP proposal, along with other suggestions from governments and international organisations, before making recommendations for a co-ordinated, global plan of action ahead of the international climate change talks in Copenhagen in December.
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