Three ways Pope Francis influenced the global climate movement

Photo: Visit of Pope Francis to Kazakhstan – September 14, 2022. Photo credit: Yakov Fedorov via Wikimedia. CC BY-SA 4.0 (No modifications.). Article by Celia Deane-Drummond. The Conversation – April 21, 2025.

The death of Pope Francis has been announced by the Vatican. I first met the late Pope Francis at the Vatican after a conference called Saving Our Common Home and the Future of Life on Earth in July 2018. My colleagues and I sensed something momentous was happening at the heart of the church. At that time, I was helping to set up the new Laudato Si’ research institute at the Jesuit Hall at the University of Oxford. This institute is named after the pope’s 2015 encyclical (a letter to bishops outlining church policy) on climate change. […]

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