On multiple occasions, Pope Francis has asked world leaders to do something to stop the climate catastrophe ever closer, and that there be agreements to stop global warming by eliminating fossil fuels. The last one was during the celebration of COP28 last December, to which he was finally unable to attend due to health problems. “The future of all of us depends on the present that we now choose,” the pontiff said. “The destruction of the environment is an offense to God.”
Jesús Sánchez-Camacho, director of the Comillas Comprehensive Ecology Unit, recalled, in a recent article in The Conversationwhich has had a high impact with more than 14,000 views and has been reproduced in the media in several countries, the urgent need to reduce 43% of carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 compared to 2019 levels, and 84% by 2050. And the report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which advocates systemic transformations in the energy, industry, construction, agriculture and forestry sectors.
Furthermore, Sánchez-Camacho highlights “the launch of a loss and damage fund to compensate the countries most vulnerable to climate change”, and the intention to move towards the end of fossil fuels, because “it is the first time that “This last measure is approved at a climate summit.” For this reason, he is also committed to demanding a decisive action plan towards an integral ecologya concept formulated by the Pope in the Encyclical Praised yeswhich is complemented by the document About caring for the common home“which delved into the anthropological, social and spiritual implications of the interaction of human beings with their environmental reality.”
The pope has placed the defense of the environment in a very prominent place in his ten years of pontificate. In his message to COP28 delegates, he insisted that “it is essential that there be progress that is not a partial change of course”, that “demonstrates a clear and tangible political will that can lead to a decisive acceleration of the ecological transition”. And he reminded them that “the gap between the opulent few and the masses of poor has never been so abysmal,” which is why he called for the forgiveness of the debt of poor countries, which are less responsible for greenhouse gases, but suffer more than advanced countries.
2024-01-03 16:36:23
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