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Will the new Pope be a climate campaigner?

Will the new Pope be a climate campaigner?

Update: 2025-05-14
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Will Pope Leo continue the Catholic Church's work on fighting global warming? And how influential might he be? Graihagh Jackson investigates.

Guests:
Christiana Zenner, Associate Professor of Theology, Science and Ethics in the Department of Theology at Fordham University. Author of the forthcoming "Beyond Laudato Si"
Dr Adil Najam, President of WWF International, and Professor of International Relations and of Earth and Environment at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University

Producer: Beth Timmins
Production Coordinator: Brenda Brown
Sounds Engineers: Dave O'Neil and David Crackles
Editor: Simon Watts

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Comments (1)

Alex K.

You think the white smoke "is a bizarre thing?" (1 min 55 seconds). How about the proposition that a man was born of a virgin, is the son of god, and came back from the dead? Now that IS bizarre

Jun 14th
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Will the new Pope be a climate campaigner?

Will the new Pope be a climate campaigner?

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