World’s Catholic bishops to world leaders: Use Paris climate conference to end the ‘fossil-fuel era’
The world’s Catholic bishops, divided on some doctrinal issues, have come together to call on world leaders at next month’s global climate conference in Paris to act decisively to reach “just and legally binding” agreements to curb greenhouse gas emissions that are accelerating climate change. Pope Francis “We join the Holy Father is pleading for a major breakthrough in Paris, for a comprehensive and transformational agreement supported by all based on principles of solidarity, justice and participation,” said an appeal signed by the heads of six continental bishops’ conferences and leaders of the national bishops conferences of the United States and Canada. The statement draws heavily from Pope Francis’ encyclical