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Podcast: Climate Now
Episode: Pope Francisâ Laudate Deum: uniting faith and science in a call to climate action
Description: In 2015, Pope Francis - head of the Catholic Church - published Laudato Si: On Care For Our Common Home, a âpapal cyclical,â or open letter, to the worldâs more than 1.3 billion Catholics about the ethical imperative of addressing climate change, and the relationship between environmental stewardship and social justice. The publication had an impact: in church-goersâ confidence in the scientific evidence for climate change, in country leaders who cited it in the COP21 negotiations that led to the Paris Agreement, and in catalyzing an international movement among the Catholic community to fight climate change.But as he makes...