Pope to lawmakers: Climate change requires quick consensus
Source: AP
By FRANCES D'EMILIO
VATICAN CITY (AP) Pope Francis on Saturday called on lawmakers worldwide to overcome the narrow confines of partisan politics to quickly reach consensus on fighting climate change.
The pope addressed parliamentarians who were in Rome for a preparatory meeting before the U.Ns annual climate conference, which begins in Glasgow, Scotland, on Oct. 31.
Francis referred to a joint appeal he and other religious leaders signed this week that calls for governments to commit to ambitious goals at the U.N. conference, which experts consider a critical opportunity to tackle the threat of global warming.
To meet this challenge, everyone has a role to play,? Francis told the visiting lawmakers from many countries. That of political and government leaders is especially important, and indeed crucial.
Pope Francis arrives to meet with the participants to the inter-parliamentary meeting on the COP26 in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican, Saturday, Oct. 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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(107,881 posts)Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Pope Francis met Saturday, the same day the pontiff gave a speech calling on lawmakers in countries around the world to act on climate change.
"His Holiness's encyclical Laudato Si' is a powerful challenge to the global community to act decisively on the climate crisis with special attention to the most vulnerable communities," Pelosi, a practicing Catholic, said in a statement released Saturday.
"I expressed the gratitude of those working on climate action in the Congress for the immense moral clarity and urgency that His Holiness continues to bring to the climate crisis, and how we continue to cherish his address to the Joint Session of Congress in 2015," she added.
Francis on Saturday called for leaders to take action on climate change and put aside "narrow" partisan politics.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pelosi-and-pope-francis-meet-amid-push-for-action-on-climate-change/ar-AAPjG5H
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