Pope highlights climate change impact on rivers
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| A family of elephants walk across the dried out Mara River basin in southwest Kenya.- AFP |
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has expressed his concern about
the effect of climate change on the most important water basins in the world in
a message to a major international summit.
The Pope encouraged all those working to preserve the
“precious gift” of water for the “future of humanity” in his greetings to
participants of a conference organised by the International Network of Basin
Organisations taking place at the Capitoline in Rome.
In the message to the “Water and Climate: Meeting the Great
Rivers of the World” event, Pope Francis hoped that the joint efforts of
participants would lead to practical solutions, and also “highlight the need
for an more integrated approach with a view to promoting development and a
spread of the culture of care.”
Reading out the communiqué to delegates, Holy See Secretary
of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin said: “In particular, Pope Francis trusts that
the threat posed by climate change to our brothers and sisters in the most
vulnerable countries can find timely and effective responses.
“Entrusting the deliberations of the summit to the guidance
of the Almighty, His Holiness invokes the blessings of wisdom and perseverence
to the participants and to all who are engaged in advancing a greater attention
to our common home.”
The three-day conference is being hosted by the Italian
Ministry for Environment, Land and Sea, in partnership with the United Nations
Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). It aims to build support for financing
projects to address the impact of floods and droughts on water resources across
the world.
(Richard Paul Marsden)
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