US EditionPope Leo XIV calls for urgent climate action and says God’s creation is ‘crying out’
Pope Leo XIV emphasized the urgency of climate action at UN talks, noting one in three people face high vulnerability and warning political will is failing.
- Pope Leo XIV urged countries at United Nations climate talks to take urgent actions against climate change, stating, "God's creation is crying out in floods, droughts, storms, and relentless heat."
- He emphasized that one in three people live in great vulnerability due to climate changes, calling ignorance to their plight a denial of shared humanity.
- He asserted there is still time to meet the Paris Agreement target, but warned, "we must be honest: it is not the Agreement that is failing, we are failing in our response."
- U.N. climate chief Simon Stiell noted that Leo's words challenge us to choose hope and action.
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Pope laments lack of political will to tackle climate crisis
Pope Leo XVI has lamented the failure of international leaders so far to summon the political will to tackle the climate crisis in a video-message to the bishops and cardinals of the Global South participating in the COP30 UN summit in Brazil. (ANSA)
Pope Leo appealed to the negotiations at the World Climate Conference. It was not the Paris Agreement that failed, but the reactions to it.
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Pope Leo XIV calls for urgent climate action and says God’s creation is 'crying out'
Pope Leo XIV is urging countries at United Nations climate talks to take “concrete actions” to stop climate change that is threatening the planet.
Pope Leo XIV on Monday called for "concrete actions" to address climate change, lamenting the lack of "political will of some" in a video message to religious leaders on the margins of COP30.
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