'No further delays allowed on climate' - Pope tells COP29

No further delays are allowed in
tackling climate change and the safeguard of the environment is
closely connected to the preservation of peace, Pope Francis
said in a message to the COP29 climate summit in Baku delivered
Wednesday by Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro
Parolin, who is attending the UN gathering.

   
"The scientific data available don't allow further delays and
make clear that the preservation of creation is one of the most
urgent issues of our time.

   
"We also need to recognize that it is closely tied to the
preservation of peace", said the message.

   
"We must act and live like members of one family" cohabiting "in
the same interconnected global village", the pope said in the
appeal.

   
His message also highlighted the "ecological debt", in
particular between the world's North and South, Cardinal Parolin
recalled.

   
Such debt is "connected to trade imbalances" that affect the
environment and to the "disproportionate use of natural
resources by some countries for long periods of time", according
to the pontiff.

   

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