Pope: Pray for COP28 and thanks to Laudato Si’ Action Platform

By Vatican News

In his greetings to the crowds gathered for the Sunday Angelus, Pope Francis recalled the launch two years ago of the Laudato Si’ Action Platform that offers useful tools for the care of the environment, our common home. An initiative of the Dicastery for the Service of Integral Human Development, the Platform offers a shared space assisting the Church to develop concrete responses to the ecological crisis, as described by Pope Francis in his encyclical Laudato si' and more specifically in his recent document Laudate Deum. 

The Laudato Si’ Action Platform provides guidance, suggests actions and gives support to families, parishes, dioceses, educational institutions, health facilities, organisations, workers, businesses and even religious communities in efforts to care for our common home.

The Pope then followed by asking to "pray for the Dubai Climate Change Conference, COP28, which is now close at hand." The Climate Change Conference, COP28 will bring together world leaders in Dubai, United Arab Emirates from 30 November to 12 December to find aggreement on policies aimed at limiting the rise in global temperature and dealing with the impacts associated with climate change. 

The conference will also be attended by Pope Francis himself, who will deliver a speech on 2 December. The Pope will travel to the United Arab Emirates from 1 to 3 December. In addition to attending COP28, he will have private bilateral meetings and inaugurate the "Pavilion of Faith" at Expo City, designed to inspire more concrete action to curb climate change.