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March 9, 2015

Vatican official to U.N. council: No one is exempt from climate change

A Nepalese man hugs a tree while celebrating World Environment Day at the forest of Gokarna, on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal, in this 2014 photo. The greatest threats facing humanity are those "that arise from global inequality and the destruction o f the environment," said Cardinal Peter Turkson, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.

GENEVA - No one is exempt from either the impacts of climate change or the moral responsibility to act to address this global concern, a Vatican official told members of the U.N. Human Rights Council.

Published in International