Pope calls for strong climate agreement

Pope calls for strong climate agreement

Pope calls for strong climate agreement

By Alex Abutu

Pope Francis has called on world leaders to seal a strong agreement at the Paris climate change meeting which started this week.

The pope who visited the headquarters of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in Nairobi during his visit to Kenya, placed particular emphasis on the need to adopt low-carbon energy systems and end the “throw-away culture” that contributes to greenhouse gas emissions.

“Important meeting on climate change will be held in Paris … It would be sad, and I dare say even catastrophic, were particular interests to prevail over the common good,” Pope Francis said. “In this international context, we are confronted with a choice which cannot be ignored: either to improve or to destroy the environment,” he added.