Pope, in Africa, lobbies on behalf of UN – Says failure of UN climate summit would be ‘catastrophic’

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World leaders must reach a historic agreement to fight climate change and poverty at coming Paris, facing the stark choice to either “improve or destroy the environment”, Pope Francis said in Africa on Thursday.

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“We are confronted with a choice which cannot be ignored: either to improve or destroy the environment,” the pope said in Nairobi, home to the U.N. Environment Programme headquarters.

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He said the international community had to listen to the “cry rising up from humanity and the earth itself.”

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