Meghan Markle and Harry: Expert calls for COP26 appearance
A piece in today’s Newsweek reported on the climate pledges the Duke and duch*ess of Sussex had made, which include making their Archewell foundation carbon neutral by the year 2030. The piece’s author, Jack Royston, tweeted: “Harry's carbon pledge pressures royals after Queen omits him from speech.
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“May be a difficult pledge for the royals to match.”
The report suggests: "Prince Harry and Meghan Markle laid down the gauntlet to the royal family on climate change—by pledging to reach net zero by 2030."
But the claim angered many Twitter users.
@k9flyerwrote: “Pressures the royals? Jack you obviously have not done your research of the established & planned eco changes made to the royal residences and transport.”
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The Duke and duch*ess of Sussex pledged to make their Archewell foundation carbon neutral by 2030 (Image: Getty)
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@YankeedoodleDu1claimed: “Competing for headlines is the Sussexes' game, not the Queen’s.
“The [royal family] will continue to work championing environmental issues as they have for decades.”
Meanwhile,@westcoastwoman7replied: “Zero pressure, Jack. [Harry and Meghan] were whining again.
“Pretty easy to reduce your work emissions when you don’t do anything but talk and write letters and announce every little thing because you think you’re important.”
@Lea_Rebekka_also responded: “So them always coming up with stuff literally the moment the royals are, is pressuring them? Doubt it!
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'They're just jump bandwagon, while the royals use their real power, to really change something' (Image: Getty)
“They just jump [on the] bandwagon, while the royals use their real power, to really change something. The Queen is a respected force since over 70 years.”
And@DivaLolaBopined: “This must be the joke of the day! Really? To take a website and 20 staff to [net zero carbon] in nine years? Wow!
“You do know this is just bandwagon jumping because they are ignored by the powers that be and reduced irrelevant, right?”
In a statement today (Wednesday) on the Archewell website, the Duke and duch*ess claimed to have “a long-standing commitment to the planet […] dating back over a decade.”
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The statement added that the charitable foundation would use the Duke’s eco-tourism company Travalyst to reach the goal, as well as their recently announced investment in Ethic, a green fintech firm.
By comparison, royal fans drew particular attention to the way Prince Charles – who has often spoken on environmental issues – runs his Highgrove estate and business.
According to the Highgrove website, wood pellet biomass boilers are used to head the house, stables and offices.
“Most of the electricity is sourced from a renewable energy supplier and from solar panels on the farm barns,” it added.
Staff cottages and greenhouses on the estate were heated using ground source heat pump.
Wood pellet biomass boilers are used to heat Charles' Highgrove House, stables and offices (Image: Getty)
It continued: “A specially-built reed bed sewage system, much loved by dragonflies at its treatment end, is used for all Highgrove’s waste.”
In her virtual speech to the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, the Queen mentioned her late husband Prince Philip, and said it was “a source of great pride” that his work “encouraging people to protect our fragile planet” lives on in Prince Charles and Prince William – but made no mention of Prince Harry.
She said that while the work of world leaders for their people in the present is “government and politics”, what they do “for the people of tomorrow” was “statesmanship”.
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She added: “I, for one, hope that this conference will be one of those rare occasions where everyone will have the chance to rise above the politics of the moment, and achieve true statesmanship.
“It is the hope of many that the legacy of this summit – written in history books yet to be printed – will describe you as the leaders who did not pass up the opportunity; and that you answered the call of those future generations.
“That you left this conference as a community of nations with a determination, a desire, and a plan, to address the impact of climate change; and to recognise that the time for words has now moved to the time for action.”
