# climate change #UNFCCC #sustainable development #SDGs
Last month, Pope Francis
invited oil executives and investors to the Vatican for a closed-door
conference where he urged them to find alternatives to fossil fuels. He warned
climate change was a challenge of “epochal proportions”.
On Friday, at the
third anniversary of the landmark environmental encyclical “Praise Be”, Pope
Francis once again made an appeal to governments to make good on their
commitments to curb global warming, warning that climate change, continued
unsustainable development and rampant consumption threatens to turn the Earth
into a vast pile of “rubble, deserts and refuse”.
Pope Francis also
emphasized the important role of civil societies, indigenous people, younger
generation and others. Being part of the wider stakeholder community, Association 3 Herissons will do our
best in environmental and sustainable development education.
Please refer to the report on the Guardian for more details.