The ecological crisis must remain a priority

“At this particular moment in our history, marked by increasingly worrying conflicts, which jeopardize the multilateralism needed to consolidate our efforts in favor of integral ecology, an issue like climate change risks being overshadowed. We cannot allow for this to happen”. This is what Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin affirmed on Tuesday, 4 October, at the event entitled “Care for Our Common Home”, held in the Vatican’s Casina Pio IV, to mark the day the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Paris Agreement went into effect for the Holy See, in the name and on behalf of Vatican City State. The event was attended by members of the diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy See, as well as representatives of various States, including Senegal, Fiji, Egypt and the Principality of Monaco. “The ...