Pope Francis hailed as ‘unflinching global champion’ on climate crisis

22/04/2025 05:00 The Guardian

Officials and campaigners from around world pay tribute to pontiff who put environment at heart of his papacyLatest updates: Cardinals head to Rome to prepare for funeralHe declared destroying the environment a sin, warned that humanity was turning the glorious creation of God into a “polluted wasteland full of debris, desolation and filth”, and located the cause of the climate crisis in people’s “selfish and boundless thirst for power”.The messages Pope Francis delivered on the climate and environmental crises were forceful and direct. He called the leaders of fossil fuel companies into the Vatican to hold them to account; declared a global climate emergency, in 2019; and in his final months, held a conference on “the economics of the common good”. Continue reading...

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