KATOWICE, POLAND - Msgr. Bruno-Marie Duffé, head of the Holy See delegation at COP24, sees "a gap between the urgency" of needed decisions and the commitment of some delegates.
From Where I Stand: To address climate change, nothing much can happen to the world around us until something happens within us that is beyond money and power, that seeks global harmony.
Catholic representatives worked to keep negotiations on track for a comprehensive deal to address global warming as the U.N. climate change conference entered its second and final week in Katowice, Poland.
The annual U.N. climate change conference, COP24, began Dec. 2 in coal-dominant Katowice, Poland, amid sense of foreboding at the present pace of response to climate change.
Listen: NCR columnist Colman McCarthy explains his thoughts on Thanksgiving and how eating animals contributes to climate change, while NCR staff writer Brian Roewe talks about the upcoming COP24 Summit.
Six bishops representing episcopal conferences on five continents issued a joint statement calling on the international community to take immediate action against climate change.
Catholics who work on the climate change issue say the world has "a moral and ethical imperative to act," following the release of a major report that foresees a global climate crisis.
While everyone has a role and responsibility to help safeguard the planet, all governments must uphold commitments agreed upon in the Paris Accord on reducing climate change, Pope Francis said.
In an address opening the Vatican's "Saving Our Common Home" event, Cardinal Pietro Parolin said that people around the world, "as members of the common household, need to come together."
Dan Misleh of Catholic Climate Covenant calls the declaration "an unprecedented effort by the U.S. Catholic community to step into the void" left by Trump's Paris exit announcement.
Pope Francis and Vatican officials plan to meet with some of the world's leading oil executives this week, in what appears as an effort to lobby the industry to take the dangers of climate change more seriously.
The Catholic Climate Covenant's campaign aligns with the broader "We Are Still In" coalition that formed after Trump's announcement that the U.S. would withdraw from the Paris Agreement.
