Overview
- Asia, Africa and Latin American bishops issued their first joint ecological appeal urging climate justice for regions bearing the brunt of warming
- The document brands carbon trading, clean-tech mining and green capital schemes as false solutions that perpetuate exploitation
- Signatories call for the complete abandonment of fossil fuels in favor of an economic model rooted in the common good
- Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu described the appeal as a “cry of dignity” and affirmed climate justice as a human and spiritual right
- Pope Leo XIV underscored papal environmental continuity by visiting a Vatican solar project site and planning a summer ecological retreat