Lincoln University was privileged to welcome His Royal Highness, The Prince of Wales to campus, where he gave a powerful keynote address on the state of the global environment.

During his visit, The Prince also heard from several postgraduate and School of Landscape Architecture students about their environmentally-related research and projects.

Around 300 people, including Lincoln students, staff, and representatives from the university’s partner organisations, were invited to the Stewart Building for the address.

His Royal Highness said he was “enormously touched” to have been invited to speak at Lincoln and described the institution as one he had “long admired from afar”.

“That I have been invited here today to offer a few of my own observations about the state of the global environment is a particular honour for me, but I fear it’s a worrying indication of how devastatingly serious the situation has become.”

The Prince said the planet faced a climate and biodiversity emergency and it was clear that the crisis had reached a “tipping point”.

“We still have the ability to change course but only in the next 10 years, after which there may be no going back.”