Mon 04 October 2021:
Pope Francis told world leaders meeting later this month for the UN climate summit (also known as COP26) that they must propose solutions to a “unprecedented ecological crisis.”
“COP26 in Glasgow represents an urgent summons to provide effective responses to the unprecedented ecological crisis and the crisis of values that we are presently experiencing, and in this way to offer concrete hope to future generations,” Francis said.
In a letter to members of a Vatican-hosted conference called Faith and Science: Towards COP26, the leader of the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics, who hopes to attend the UN talks, made the request.
It brought together scientists and religious leaders ahead of the historic two-week summit in Scotland, which begins on October 31.
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.
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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