The king goes green. Charles III went to Bordeaux on Friday, September 22, for the last day of his visit to France. The sovereign spoke with the city’s environmentalist mayor, Pierre Hurmic, before visiting an experimental forest and a vineyard converted to biodynamics. Thursday, in front of parliamentarians meeting in the Senate, he proposed a new Franco-British “Agreement” on climate and biodiversity. Follow our live stream.
“A recognition” for Bordeaux. Pierre Hurmic sees in this movement “a recognition of the way in which the city of Bordeaux has responded, for several years, to the ecological and climatic issues which are of particular interest to King Charles III”. The chosen one plans to plant a tree with the sovereign.
A walk in the woods. During his visit, Charles III will discover the Floirac experimental forest. Since 2020, scientists have been studying the response of forests to environmental changes. They are particularly interested in their adaptation to drought, in a region still marked by the gigantic fires of the summer of 2022.
An “Agreement for Sustainability”. Faced with parliamentarians, Thursday, the king proposed that France and the United Kingdom commit to a “Agreement for sustainability” in order to respond “more efficiently” has “the global emergency in terms of climate and biodiversity”. At the end of 2021, at the International Climate Conference (COP) in Glasgow, he urged heads of state to redouble their efforts in the fight against global warming.