Pope Francis has called on world leaders to reach a historic agreement to fight climate change and poverty at the Paris climate change conference dubbed COP21 that starts on Tuesday, saying that the world has a choice either to improve or to destroy the environment.
While addressing the United Nations Environmental Programme in Nairobi Thursday, the pontiff said that he would be disappointed if vested interests carried the day at the Paris meeting at the expense of the common good of the people and the planet.
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