The Vatican will join the Paris agreements on climate change
The Vatican's ecological commitment has redoubled in recent years under the impetus of Pope Francis and his encyclical Laudato Si'.
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The Holy See announced this Friday, July 8 that it wanted to join the Paris agreements of the UN.
A commitment that has come to devote activism in recent years on ecological issues.
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With our correspondent at the Vatican
,
Eric Sénanque
On Thursday, the permanent observer of the Holy See to the UN officially filed with the General Secretariat the request to join the
Paris agreements
.
The Vatican should become, within 2 months, the 198th state on the planet to join these agreements.
Through this commitment, the Holy See “
intends to contribute and give its moral support to the efforts of all States to cooperate (…) in an effective and adequate response to the challenges that climate change poses to our humanity and to our common home
”, said a statement from the Vatican.
The smallest state in the world does not emit greenhouse gases, but its ecological commitment has redoubled in recent years under the impetus of Pope Francis and his
encyclical Laudato Si'
, published a few months before the COP21.
Many meetings on the protection of the planet have been organized on his initiative, as before the Glasgow conference last year, and his diplomatic activism has played a major role in recent years, particularly with the countries of Latin America where Ladato Si' has been read a lot.
Climate change has an impact on the environment but “
above all affects the lives of the poorest and most vulnerable people,
” the Vatican recalls in its press release.
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