COP27: King Charles hosts meeting ahead of climate summit

King Charles has hosted a reception to sermon tackling clime alteration arsenic planetary leaders hole for the UN clime acme COP27.

About 200 politicians and campaigners met astatine Buckingham Palace, including UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and US clime envoy John Kerry.

The King is internationally known for his clime enactment but it was agreed helium would not spell to COP27.

The UN league begins connected Sunday successful Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.

Mr Sunak told the gathering that the UK's planetary enactment connected clime alteration volition proceed aft its COP presidency ends this week. The UK hosted COP26 successful Glasgow past year.

"Every infinitesimal that we let clime change to ravage our satellite we volition spot much quality suffering," helium said.

"If we bash not enactment contiguous we volition hazard leaving an ever much hopeless inheritance for our children tomorrow."

Mr Sunak, who volition be the opening days of the summit, had faced fierce disapproval from clime activists and absorption politicians for initially saying helium would not spell owed to pressing matters successful the UK.

The premier curate paid tribute to King Charles's enactment connected climate, saying helium had worked for 50 years to find solutions, agelong earlier the archetypal UN COP meeting.

When erstwhile PM Liz Truss entered No 10, it was announced King Charles would not spell to the summit.

The monarch has a long-standing involvement successful biology issues and attended COP26 successful Glasgow past year, but the Palace said it had sought proposal from then-PM Ms Truss and that "with communal relationship and respect determination was statement that the King would not attend".

On Thursday a spokesperson for Mr Sunak said, "had the premier curate been successful station earlier the concern mightiness person been different".

Buckingham Palace says the reception connected Friday day was organised to "facilitate treatment of sustainable growth, advancement made since COP26 successful Glasgow and corporate and continued efforts to tackle clime change."

At COP26 successful Glasgow past year, the King told leaders: "I tin lone impulse you, arsenic the world's decision-makers, to find applicable ways of overcoming differences truthful we tin each get down to work, together, to rescue this precious satellite and prevention the threatened aboriginal of our young people."