Environment

Pope Francis’ latest plea to urgently address global warming and climate change is being hailed by Catholic ecological advocates as “a great call to action.”

The U.N. described the Climate Ambition Summit as “a broad global coalition of ‘movers and doers'” including “politicians, business and civil society” that represents a “critical political milestone for demonstrating that there is collective global will to accelerate the pace and scale of a just transition to a more equitable renewable-energy based, climate-resilient global economy.”

Launched in 2016, the Laudato Si’ Animators Program is an initiative of the Laudato Si’ Movement, an international organization founded in 2015 as the Global Catholic Climate Movement.