COP30: Vatican calls for stricter NDCs, more funding and fossil fuel phase-out

ITALY - POPE LEO XIV RECEIVES IN PRIVATE AUDIENCE HIS EMINENCE CARD. JAIME SPLENGER, CARD FILIPE NERI ANTONIO SEBASTIA DO ROSARIO FERRAO, CARD. FRIDOLIN AMBONGO BESUNGU , MGR LINZARDO ESTRADA HERRERA IN THE VATICAN - 2025 7 1 Italy, Rome, Vatican, 2025 7 1 .Pope Leo XIV receives in private audience CARD. FRIDOLIN AMBONGO BESUNGU — Pope Leo XIV receives the authors of the declaration, here the Congolese Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu. (IMAGO / Catholicpressphoto)

The Catholic bishops of Latin America, Africa and Asia are mobilizing ahead of the COP30: They demand a different global economy, compensation for the ecological debts of the North and the end of fossil fuels.

Bernhard Pötter

Last updated: 24. July 2025

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