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Published 3/9/2009 by The Huffington Post News Team at Green on HuffingtonPost.com

Prince Charles dived into the first full day of a Latin America tour Monday, visiting Chile's capital and preparing a speech set to highlight his concern over climate change. The prince's speech on climate change in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday is being presented as one of his keynote presentations. Climate change "is one of the UK government?s highest foreign policy priorities in 2009," the British embassy in Brazil said in a statement announcing Prince Charles's visit. (link)

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