Pope Francis on Sunday urged leaders
taking part in the COP29 climate summit opening Monday in the
capital of Azerbaijan Baku to give an effective contribution in
protecting the environment.
The pontiff said during his Angelus address that he hoped the UN
climate conference - the 29th leadership gathering to address
global warming since the first Conference of the Parties in 1995
- "will give an effective contribution to the safeguard of our
common home".
The pontiff recalled the three-year anniversary of the Laudato
si' Action Platform, created following his 2015 Encyclical
Laudato si', which vies to promote the safeguard of the
environment placing human beings at the centre, with the most
vulnerable often bearing the brunt of climate change.
And Pope Francis expressed closeness Sunday to the "residents of
Valencia and other parts of Spain" who are dealing with the
consequences of deadly flooding and to the population of the
island of Flores, in Indonesia, where a series of volcanic
eruptions of Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki killed nine people and
injured dozens of others.
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