Causes Photo by Jason Briscoe on Unsplash Catholics used to forgo meat on Fridays. Could bringing the practice back help the climate? A recent study shows giving up meat once a week could cut thousands of tons of carbon emissions each year. While Pope Francis has called urgent climate action a moral imperative, U.S. Catholic bishops are unlikely to encourage the move.
Politics insideclimatenews.org The first African American Cardinal is a climate change leader Wilton Gregory, as archbishop of Atlanta, asked for an action plan in 2015 to help boost Pope Francis’s encyclical on climate change.