Cop27 scheduled for November in Sharm el-Sheik. Charles III was disappointed because he had already organized
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LONDON – First clash between the new re Carlo III and the British neopremier Liz Truss: according to what was revealed by the Sunday Timesthe government leader would have forbidden to the sovereign to go to Cop27, the Climate Conference scheduled for November in Sharm el-Sheik. Sources close to Carlo quoted by the newspaper have made it known that the king was personally disappointed as he had already made arrangements to go to the Conference, where he would present a series of initiatives related to sustainability: but from Downing Street they underline that there was no dispute and that the atmosphere of the hearing during which the premier communicated her decision remained cordial.
However, it is easy to imagine that the coexistence between Carlo and Liz Truss risks being uneven: he has always been a champion of ecology, while the new government is preparing to relax environmental regulations and it is feared that he may abandon the goal of decarbonising the economy by 2050. However, the king immediately bowed to the Downing Street diktat: after all, in his first address to the nation, the new ruler had promised to maintain constitutional principles to the heart of our nation and had admitted that it will no longer be possible for me to devote so much time and energy to the causes that are dear to me. A recognition that his activism as Prince of Wales, who had seen him intervene from the environment to architecture to fox hunting, will no longer be sustainable now that he has ascended the throne.
But Carlo’s ideas are no mystery to anyone: and from the environment to the intercultural dialogue his decidedly a progressive sensibility that risks being discounted by the ultra-conservative ideology of Liz Truss. Something that recalls the clamorous disagreement between Queen Elizabeth and Margaret Thatcher on the question of sanctions against apartheid South Africa: why the Crown, while politically neutralwhen he wants he knows how to make himself heard.
October 2, 2022 (change October 2, 2022 | 22:14)
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