"They made no pledges to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, and set no timetable for action"
Guardian:
Pope Francis declares 'climate emergency' and urges action
"Pope Francis has declared a global “climate emergency”, warning of the dangers of global heating and that a failure to act urgently to reduce greenhouse gases would be “a brutal act of injustice toward the poor and future generations”.
He also endorsed the 1.5C limit on temperature rises that some countries are now aiming for, referring to warnings from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of “catastrophic” effects if we crossed such a threshold. He said a “radical energy transition” would be needed to stay within that limit, and urged young people and businesses to take a leading role.
“Future generations stand to inherit a greatly spoiled world. Our children and grandchildren should not have to pay the cost of our generation’s irresponsibility,” he said, in his strongest and most direct intervention yet on the climate crisis. “Indeed, as is becoming increasingly clear, young people are calling for a change.”
The Pope’s impassioned plea came as he met the leaders of some of the world’s biggest multinational oil companies in the Vatican on Friday to impress upon them the urgency and scale of the challenge, and their central role in tackling the emissions crisis. It followed a similar meeting last year, but this time the Pope’s stance was tougher as he warned that time was running out and urged them to hear “the increasingly desperate cries of the earth and its poor”.
"The chief executives or chairs of BP, ExxonMobil, Shell, Total, ConocoPhilips, Chevron and several major investors including BlackRock and Hermes, responded by calling on governments to put in place carbon pricing to encourage low-carbon innovation, and called for greater financial transparency to aid investors.
However, they made no pledges to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, and set no timetable for action."www.theguardian.com/...
"The oil majors knew all about the risk from climate change many years before most of us first heard about it"
"The IPCC warned last year that the world had about a decade to bring greenhouse gases under control, or face a probable rise in temperatures well beyond the 1.5C above pre-industrial levels they warned would bring devastating effects such as droughts, floods, heatwaves and damage to agriculture."
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Angmar
UPDATE ABOUT THE POPE, AS AN INDIVIDUAL :
“Pope Francis’ first Encyclical (large work) was about climate change in 2015. He published two Exhortations (smaller work) that urged some (aimed at the American church) to basically stop obsessing about the unborn and get busy on climate issues for creation and the poor. There is some evidence that he was widely influential; however, not so much in America where the GOP has made huge inroads in league with conservatives which is why Bannon was over in Italy. (He was, btw, evicted from this medieval “monastery which he had leased.)”
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