In a video message addressed to participants of the Climate Change Summit, Pope Francis stated such a meeting ‘puts us on the path’ towards the COP26 Conference, slated for Glasgow, in November.

But even more specifically, he indicated, to take charge of the care of nature, of this gift that we receive and must protect and guard, adding that even though the pandemic goes on, ‘we must look to the future because it is a crisis’ and ‘we do not come out the same from it, we come out better or worse.’

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