Prince Charles pleads for sweeping new economic model to avert climate 'catastrophe'

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Prince Charles pleads for sweeping new economic model to avert climate 'catastrophe'
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In an unprecedented royal intrusion on government policy, the future king says market and tax reform will help solve climate change.

Denouncing "perverse subsidies" given to heavy polluters, he said policy makers should "not be afraid to adapt out longstanding incentive structures", citing his support for a carbon pricing model similar to the one introduced under Labor prime minister Julia Gillard and scrapped by the Coalition in 2014.

Aware the summit has been criticised as an expensive and carbon-intensive talkfest, Prince Charles told the crowd that leadership figures had a responsibility to better educate the public that the hip-pocket cost of reducing emissions was only one side of the story. "Everything I have tried to do, and urge, over the past 50 years has been done with our children and grandchildren in mind, because I did not want to be accused by them of doing nothing except prevaricate and deny the problem," he said ahead of the private meeting with 17-year-old Thunberg.

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