ROME, Oct 4 — World leaders meeting later this month for a UN climate summit must offer solutions to an “unprecedented ecological crisis”, Pope Francis warned today.
The leader of the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics, who is hoping to attend the UN talks, issued the plea in writing to members of a Vatican-hosted conference called Faith and Science: Towards COP26. The Vatican participants were due to sign an appeal denouncing the “seeds of conflict—greed, indifference, ignorance, fear, injustice, insecurity and violence”, which in turn “cause the serious wounds we are inflicting on the environment, such as climate change, desertification, pollution and loss of biodiversity”, the pope said.
“We have in the last 100 years declared war on the creation,” he said, calling for a “dramatic and rapid change in taxation and trade rules” in favour of a more sustainable economic model. Last month, Francis, Welby and Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew I issued another plea for climate action, saying they felt compelled to “call on everyone, whatever their belief or worldview, to endeavour to listen to the cry of the Earth”.
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