Eugenie says she is teaching her son August, one, about climate change trends now
Princess Eugenie has said she is teaching her one-year-old son about climate change and has ditched all plastic products around her house.
Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the 32-year-old said: 'My son's going to be an activist from two years old.
'As a mother you totally change. Now all I think about is what happens to rising sea levels and the communities that are on the beaches who depend entirely on the sea - as well as what August can do about it in the future.
'At home we have no plastic and I'm trying to teach him that, but it's a battle.'
The Duke of York's daughter shared that becoming a mother has made her more concerned for communities vulnerable to climate change in a discussion with Reuters IMPACT and Arctic Humanity at Risk Basecamp, a non-profit organisation to highlight the impact that climate change is having on the Arctic.
Speaking with Reuters editor-at-large Axel Threlfall and Arctic Humanity founder Gail Whiteman, Eugenie said: 'My son's going to be an activist from two years old, which is in a couple of days. So, he, everything is for them.
'I talked to Peter Thomson, the UN Special Envoy for Oceans and all he says to me is that I do this for my grandchildren. And that's the same.
'Every decision we now make has to be for whether August, what he's going to be able to look at and do and how he's going to live his life.
'But I think also as a mother, you all of a sudden, totally you change, your hormones change, everything changes.
'Like now I'm scared of flying and things like that and I would never be before.'
Princess Eugenie said her one-year-old son, August, is the focus of her climate change activism (pictured with her son at the late Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee in June 2022)
In an interview with Reuters IMPACT and Arctic Humanity at Risk Basecamp, Eugenie said educating her son about the environment is a 'battle'
Prince Andrew's youngest daughter said she views the world differently since becoming a mother, and her concerns about climate change have affected how she lives.
She revealed: 'At home we have no plastic, we try to as much as possible have no plastic and I'm trying to teach him that. But it's a battle.'
But the princess also spoke of her hope for the future of the environment, saying: 'I like to be 'glass half full'.'
She added: 'I'd rather be that way, but sometimes the facts and the figures and sometimes having the dinners do give you that sort of sense of frustration and doom and gloom.'
The daughter of the Duke of York (pictured at the UN Ocean Conference 2022) has spoken
