Caritas Internationalis:
‘Climate Change is now’
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| Demonstators take to the streets in Paris calling for action against climate change.- AFP |
A document
signed by 6 continental Bishops’ Conferences calls for immediate and urgent
action to tackle climate change.
By Linda
Bordoni
The Presidents
of six continental Bishops’ Conferences have signed a document appealing to
government leaders to take immediate action to tackle climate change in an
effort to avert catastrophic effects of the climate crisis.
As Martina
Liebsch, Policy Director of Caritas Internationalis explained
after the presentation of the document on Friday, October 26, the appeal
calls on politicians to work towards the implementation of the Paris Agreement
to safeguard the planet and all of its people:
One Common Home
She explained
that the document has been drawn up also in view of the next United Nations
Climate Change Conference –the COP 24 – which is scheduled to take place in
Poland in December, to make sure it will be a success and to highlight “that we
need to move forward because we see we have one earth, one common home, and we
need to take care of it”.
Liebsh said it
was also to issue a broader call to the public “to ensure that the faithful
understand the urgency, understand the responsibility that we have for future
generations as well, to care for our common home and try to make it possible
that we keep the global warming temperature to 1.5 Degrees Celsius”.
Report by
International Panel on Climate Change
She pointed to
the recent, very alarming, report by the International Panel on Climate Change:
“It warns that if we don’t make these efforts some parts of the world may be
inhabitable in a very near future”.
“It’s not
something which is far away: it is something that is now” she said.
Liebsch said
that at the document was presented in the presence of Cardinal Oswald Gracias,
Archbishop of Bombay in India, Archbishop Jean-Claude Hollerich, President of
COMECE and a youth representative from Oceania.
The face of
climate change
“What touched me
most, she said, was that he said ‘climate change is not about statistics, about
degrees, it’s about people’”.
He described
himself, she concluded, as “a face of climate change” pointing out that in the
future we could all be “the faces of climate change”.
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