2015-09-29 16:09:00

Filipinos on "climate pilgrimage"


Philippine "climate pilgrims" will bring a copy of Pope Francis' encyclical Laudato si' when they embark on a 60-day "people's pilgrimage" from St. Peter's Square to Paris on Sept. 30.

Thousands  of environmental activists from around the world are expected to join a pilgrimage organized  by pro-environment and faith organizations. It is  a pilgrimage with a strong spiritual component  and backed by major environment groups such as Nobel laureate Al Gore's The Climate Reality Project.
 

The pilgrims are expected to arrive in Paris two days before the opening of the UN climate summit in December when world leaders will attempt to forge a new treaty aimed at limiting global warming and preventing its catastrophic consequences.

The Vatican to Paris pilgrimage will be the culmination of a six-month journey around the world to places hit hard by climate change.

Philippines’ top climate envoy Yeb Sano is demanding world powers to do more to fight global warming.  The highest-profile event will be the more-than-1,000-kilometre walk from Rome to Paris.
 

"The image of people walking together, especially when we mass up and arrive in Paris, we hope that can provide the inspiration and the important political push for world leaders," Sano said.

"We want governments to be part of this new era of cooperation," he said.

"But if they refuse to be part of this, there is a lot of hope in our hearts that we can still do this because the power to change is in the hands of people.

The 2015 UN climate change conference will be held in Paris from Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 which aims to achieve a legally binding and universal agreement on climate.  (Source - UCAN)








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