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Vatican: Holy See signs up for two major climate pacts
Vatican City, 15 May (AKI) - The Vatican has signed two important
international climate pacts aimed at protecting the earth's ozone layer
and reducing use of the main chemicals that deplete the ozone layer,
the Holy See announced on Thursday in a statement.
The Vatican has signed the United Nations' Vienna Convention for
the Protection of the Ozone Layer and Montreal Protocol on Substances
that Deplete the Ozone Layer.
The Vienna Convention acts as a framework agreement to safeguard
the ozone layer, while the Montreal Protocol contains legally binding
targets for the phasing out of chlorofluorocarbons (CFS), a class of
chemicals that deplete the ozone layer, contributing to global warming.
"The Holy See desires to encourage the entire international
community to be resolute in promoting authentic co-operation between
politics, science and economics," said Archbishop Celestino Migliore.
Migliore, Holy See permanent observer to the United Nations in New
York, deposited the Vatican's pledge to the UN secretary general Ban
Ki-moon on 5 May.
"Such co-operation, as has been shown in the case of the ozone
regime, can achieve important outcomes, which make it simultaneously
possible to safeguard creation, to promote integral human development
and to care for the common good, in a spirit of responsible solidarity
and with profound positive repercussions for present and future
generations," Migliore continued.
By signing up to the two climate pacts, the Holy See hoped that by
recognising "the signs of [an economic growth] that has not always been
able to protect the delicate balances of nature, all actors will
intensify the aforesaid co-operation and strengthen the alliance
between man and the environment," he concluded.