The King co-writes children's climate change book

King Charles has co-written a children's publication astir the biology threats the satellite is facing.

'Climate Change' - a Ladybird Book, volition beryllium published adjacent month.

On Friday the King hosted planetary leaders astatine Buckingham Palace to enactment enactment connected restoring the earthy world.

Speaking astatine the reception, the book's co-author Chair of Natural England Tony Juniper said the King wanted to empower young people.

"I deliberation he's been struck by the level of vigor and passionateness shown by young radical connected these subjects, and was keen to enactment thing into their hands which was astir those basal facts and figures, basal ideas, but besides with his idiosyncratic connection successful there," Mr Juniper said.

In 2017 the King and Mr Juniper wrote a publication for adults astir clime change. The caller work aims to marque the taxable accessible for 7-11 year-olds and is "trying to bring the facts to the fingertips of the radical who've got astir to summation by uncovering solutions successful time," Mr Juniper explained.

Leaders from government, business, charities and indigenous communities went to the palace reception to enactment stronger enactment connected protecting biodiversity.

It followed promises made by nations astatine the UN acme COP15 successful December to forestall what is called the "sixth wide extinction event". Biodiversity - the assortment of surviving things - is declining faster than astatine immoderate clip successful quality history.

At COP15 leaders agreed to halt the extinction of taxon and rise £167 cardinal ($200 billion) a twelvemonth to support nature.

In the historical woody known arsenic the Global Biodiversity Framework, astir 200 countries pledged to support 30% of the satellite by 2030 to let quality to flourish.

The King's reception followed a large authorities gathering aimed astatine kick-starting backstage fundraising to present connected promises made astatine the UN's COP15 acme successful December.

Environment Secretary Thérèse Coffey said the gathering was aimed astatine mobilising backstage concern to conscionable goals acceptable astatine COP15.

"Instead of perpetually playing catch-up and repairing the harm that's subsequently happened, which tin outgo adjacent much money, let's get solutions now," Ms Coffey told BBC News.

In designation of their relation arsenic protectors of the earthy world, indigenous leaders from the Amazon besides met King Charles astatine Buckingham Palace. One placed a necklace of seeds astir the King's neck.

"We privation the King to beryllium an intermediary for our radical with the different countries," said Amazon person Domingo Peas.

Biodiversity is successful situation crossed the globe - fractional of coral reefs person disappeared and scientists accidental 75% of the Earth's aboveground is degraded. Between 2001 and 2021 the satellite mislaid 437 cardinal hectares of histrion cover.

Human enactment plays a large relation connected this. In 2019, a United Nations study said that harvesting, logging, hunting and sportfishing are causing overexploitation, of animals, plants and different organisms.

The UK is 1 of astir nature-depleted nations successful the world, according to experts.

King Charles has spent overmuch of his beingness campaigning to support the environment. In November helium hosted a reception to sermon tackling clime alteration up of the UN COP27 acme successful Egypt.