King Charles has taken part in a reception at the Throne Room, organised by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, focused on tackling super pollutants.
The monarch examined displays highlighting the effects of these harmful emissions and learned about mitigation efforts from groups such as the Clean Air Task Force, Clean Air Fund, and Wellcome Trust.
Following his tour of the exhibition stalls, King Charles joined roughly 250 guests drawn from political, scientific, business, philanthropic, and international climate diplomacy circles.
Prior to the King's arrival, addresses were given by Energy Secretary Ed Miliband, Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley, and United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres.
The gathering brought together senior figures from across government, academia, charitable foundations, the private sector, and global climate negotiations.
Several organisations presented their work combating super pollutants at dedicated stalls within the venue, demonstrating both the scale of the challenge and the practical steps being implemented to address it.
The event aimed to build momentum for accelerated action on these particularly harmful emissions.
The United Kingdom assumed co-chairmanship of the Climate and Clean Air Coalition alongside Brazil in March 2024, joining a partnership comprising more than 200 governments, non-governmental organisations, and international bodies.
The coalition targets super pollutants such as methane, black carbon, hydrofluorocarbons, nitrous oxide, and tropospheric ozone.
Cutting these emissions represents one of the most promising routes to limiting near-term global temperature rises by as much as 0.6 degrees by 2050.
Such reductions would simultaneously benefit public health, agricultural output, food security, energy infrastructure, and economic development, with many solutions proving both affordable and quickly deployable.
The King has maintained a busy schedule today after undertaking two other separate engagements today.
King Charles has welcomed the Afghan Refugee Women's Cricket Team to the gardens of Clarence House as they begin their tour of the United Kingdom.
The monarch also visited the Roger Gracie Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Academy in Hammersmith to discover how REORG uses martial arts training to assist military personnel, veterans and emergency service workers.
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