“Biodiversity loss and the numerous wars taking place in various regions of the world have adverse consequences for the survival and well-being of humanity, including problems of food safety and of pollution growing,” the Pope said in a message sent to participants in the Vatican of a conference on climate change.
The conference, organized by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences under the title “The resilience of peoples and ecosystems to the climatic stress“, aims to find practical solutions that increase the resilience of people and ecosystems.
“The phenomenon of climate change has become a emergency who is no longer on the fringes of society. And that it has assumed a central role in affecting the human family, especially the poor and those who live in the economic peripheries of the world,” Pope Francis wrote in English.
Policies against climate change
Francis, highly sensitive to the ecological issue, recalled that the Holy See, in the name and on behalf of the State of Vatican City, adheres from this month to the UN Framework Convention which provides for a limitation of the global warming.
To address climate change and its negative impacts, world leaders in United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP21)in Paris, agreed in the long term to substantially reduce emissions of greenhouse gases to limit global temperature rise this century to 2°C and strive to limit that rise to even as little as 1.5°C.
Pope Francis called on “the most economically favored nations to reduce their own emissions and provide financial and technological assistance to less prosperous regions so that they can follow their example,” he stressed.
Source: Ambito
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