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November 29, 2023

For health reasons, Pope Francis cancels COP28 trip

Pope Francis gives his blessing to people gathered in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican and watching a livestream of the midday Angelus prayer Nov. 26, 2023. The pope did not go to his window overlooking the square because, he said, he had a "problem with inflammation of my lungs."

"With great regret," Pope Francis has accepted his doctors' advice to not travel to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Dec. 1-3 and is looking at alternative ways the Vatican can participate in the U.N. Climate Change Conference, the director of the Vatican press office said.

Published in Vatican
November 3, 2023

Vatican confirms papal trip to Dubai for climate conference

Pope Francis meets Sultan al-Jaber, the president-designate of the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference, known as COP28, his delegation and Cardinal Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot, prefect of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue, at the Vatican Oct. 11, 2023. COP28 is set to open Nov. 30 in Dubai.

Pope Francis will travel to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates Dec. 1-3 to participate in the U.N. Climate Change Conference, the Vatican press office confirmed.

Published in Vatican
November 24, 2022

Editorial: COP27’s failure

The COP27 sign is displayed along a road leading to the conference area in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh as the city prepares to host the COP27 summit Nov. 6-18.

Few things say “fallen humanity” better than the annual gaseous blowout of the United Nations Conference on Climate Change.

Published in Editorial
November 23, 2016

U.N. climate conference misses mark for small farmers, says D&P

File photo of the Paris climate conference from December 2015. Development and Peace said the the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Marrakech, which concluded Nov. 18, failed to address the needs of small farmers.

OTTAWA – The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Marrakech failed to address the needs of small farmers, said a representative from the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace.

Published in International
December 7, 2015

Stopping climate change, poverty go hand-in-hand, says Pope

Pope Francis gestures as he leads his Angelus from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Dec. 6.

VATICAN CITY - Heads of states at the U.N. climate change conference in Paris must do everything possible to mitigate the effects of both climate change and poverty "for the good of our common home," Pope Francis said.

Published in Faith