De Blasio pledges greenhouse gas emissions cuts at Vatican summit

The latest developments at the Vatican’s meeting of mayors on fighting climate change and human trafficking. “This type of honest, proactive collaboration will help create more peaceful, prosperous and resilient communities around the world“.

Boston Mayor Marty Walsh sits in the Synod Hall prior to the start of a conference on Modern Slavery and Climate Change at the Vatican, Tuesday, July 21, 2015. Stockholm is one of the world’s leaders in using renewable energy sources: 75 percent of the city’s public transport network runs on renewable energy.

They also are seeking to promote the pope’s environmental encyclical, which denounced the fossil fuel-based world economy.

Chammany detailed how repeated years of global warming-induced drought in India was pushing impoverished farmers into cities, making them ripe for the “dark dungeons of slavery” and exploitation.

“I didn’t think I was worth anything”.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Dozens of environmentally friendly mayors from around the world will be signing a Vatican declaration Tuesday urging their national leaders to approve a “bold climate agreement” that keeps global warming at a safe limit for humanity, The Associated Press has learned.

The Sacramento Bee reports Tuesday that Brown is at the Vatican amid stepped up efforts to bring support for policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Pope Francis concluded his address with a series of quotes and references to theologian Romano Guardini and his theology of the human person.

“I’m really going to thank him for convening this meeting, because I keep hearing it’s the first of its kind ever, in the Vatican with mayors from around the world to talk about two very important issues of sex trafficking and slavery and also climate change and global warming”.

“Climate negotiators must dare to push boundaries and exclude fossil fuels as an option and reward solutions that are long-term sustainable and recyclable”, she told a Vatican conference on climate Tuesday.

Brown, a onetime Jesuit seminarian, has made climate change a central theme of his tenure in his second stint as California governor.

He has linked the need to preserve the environment to income inequality, saying the harmful effects of climate change are felt hardest by the poor.

The document calls for financial incentives to transition to low-carbon and renewable energy and to shift public financing away from the military to “urgent investments” in sustainable development, with wealthy countries helping poorer ones.

The mayors are expected to sign a Vatican declaration urging world leaders to take bold action at Paris climate talks this December.