A new call, for the planet. Pope Francis sounded the alarm in the face of global warming and called for a “binding” energy transition in a text published on Wednesday, a few weeks before COP28 in Dubai. Eight years after the publication of his founding encyclical on integral ecology, “Laudato Si’”, the 86-year-old sovereign pontiff deplores “insufficient responses while the world (…) is collapsing” and approaches a “breaking point”.
This new document, entitled “Praise God”, calls on the great powers to “reconfigure multilateralism” while the objectives of reducing carbon emissions seem increasingly difficult to achieve. The head of the Catholic Church, who warns that “the world is collapsing”, insists in particular on the need for a “binding” energy transition.
The Pope considers the explosion in the number of climate migrants “probable”
“No matter how much we try to deny them, hide them, conceal them or put them into perspective, the signs of climate change are there, ever more obvious,” said the Pope, deeming the explosion in the number of migrants “probable”. climate “in a few years”.
In 2015, “Praise be to you”, a 200-page manifesto for solidarity to act together to protect the environment, sparked a global debate, an unprecedented phenomenon for a religious text, including comments in scientific journals. A few months later, significant progress was obtained with the Paris climate agreement, the primary objective of which is to keep the temperature rise below 2°C.