Pope Leo XIV. criticizing the lack of political will of some countries in fighting the climate crisis. “What has failed is the political will of some parties,” he said in his message at the start of the crucial week of the World Climate Conference in Brazil and acknowledged the progress achieved through the Paris Climate Agreement agreed ten years ago. It was not the agreement that failed, but “our reaction to it.”
His home country, the US, withdrew from the Paris Agreement under the leadership of President Donald Trump.
“The Scream of Creation”
Pope Leo drew attention to the climate impacts that are already being felt today: “Society cries out in the form of floods, droughts, storms and unrelenting heat. One in three people lives in grave danger due to these climate impacts.”
In light of climate negotiations between nearly 200 countries, the church leader called for greater ambition. There is still time to keep global temperature rise below 1.5 degrees. “But the window of opportunity is closing.” As stewards of God’s creation, human beings are called to act with foresight and protect what God has entrusted to them.
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