About 60 mayors pledged, one by one, to reduce their cities’ emissions and urge global leaders to pass a “bold climate agreement” at the upcoming United Nations talks in Paris that “confines global warming to a limit safe for humanity, while protecting the poor and the vulnerable from ongoing climate change that gravely endangers their lives.”
Among the cities represented at the meeting were New York City, San Francisco, New Orleans, Boston, Vancouver, Madrid, Rome, and Stockholm. California Governor Jerry Brown was also in attendance.
“We can’t say that the person is here and the care for the environment is there,” Pope Francis said on Tuesday as he took the stage to address the mayors. “This is what I was trying to express in the encyclical Laudato Si’. We can’t separate man from all else. There is a mutual impact.”
“It’s not a green encyclical; it’s a social encyclical,” he continued.
NYC Mayor Bill deBlasio tweeted out:
A true honor to learn from so many mayors this week. Many thanks to @pontifex for convening this progressive group. pic.twitter.com/bfdawYOGWj
— Bill de Blasio (@BilldeBlasio) July 22, 2015
de Blasio also gave a speech at the conference, where he said, “It’s increasingly clear that we local leaders of the world have many tools and that we must use them boldly even as our national governments hesitate.
-RW
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