wildfires in California and you see it in persistent droughts in Australia,” Carnegie-Brown, who is chairing the taskforce, said. “So there is now increasing demand by customers for these kinds of protections and we need to respond to them.”
He highlighted the crucial role played by His Royal Highness in launching a collective response to the global crisis. “What the prince is really doing is helping us convene and galvanise a whole of industry response,” he said. “Instead of people going off and doing their own thing they’re actually bringing some of their intellectual property, and some of their capability reporting on some of their existing findings and research, on what is having the most impact.”
