Mayors from all over the world at the Vatican to talk about climate change

Mayor Mitchell Landrieu of New Orleans at the meeting in the Vatican could be pleased to hear what other mayors were doing to make cities more resilient and “get a practical guide on climate change.” When Hurricane Katrina hit 10 years ago, he said, his city became “the canary in the coal mine” showing the world how extreme weather associated with climate change can devastate a major city.

Mayor Tony Chammany of Kochi, India said that mitigating climate change and curbing poverty and exploitation cost money and demand investments. Today’s financial crisis is hindering greater efforts. for that reason the greater worldpowers should find solutions to get a better balance between rich and poor and getting their priorities right.

Governments must make the environment and social problems a top priority in public spending.

said Chammany.

Bill de Blasio in 2013, when he held the citywide office of New York City Public Advocate, serving as an ombudsman between the electorate and the city government.

The American politician currently serving as the 109th mayor of New York City, Bill De Blasio said making an impact will not be easy; Pope Francis’ recent encyclical on creation

“holds individuals accountable for the fate of our planet, but it rightly asks the most of governments.”

People are being

“pushed by the highest moral authority to take the next step, no matter how challenging it appears to be,”

he said.

Edmund Gerald “Jerry” Brown Jr. (1938-) American politician and lawyer who has served as the 39th Governor of California since 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, Brown previously served as the 34th Governor from 1975 to 1983, and is the longest-serving governor in California history.

California Gov Jerry Brown said in his speech that there is “fierce opposition and blind inertia” to moving away from dependence on petroleum and coal. And, he said,

“that opposition is well financed — hundreds of millions of dollars are going into propaganda, to falsifying the scientific record, bamboozling people of every country.”

Mayor Kagiso Thutlwe of Gaborone, Botswana, told CNS that he disagrees with claims that radically reducing greenhouse gas emissions will hurt development.

“There was a period when our forefathers didn’t know anything about development,”

he said. That changed when outside assistance brought in modern methods

“and this development is now making us be engaged with the world”

and getting his people access to new technologies, he said.

In fact, Thutlwe said he sees public-private partnerships as being key to growing a more “green” development, for example by partnering with solar-panel companies to exploit his country’s abundance of sunshine and get needed electricity to more people.

From Angela Brown-Burke’s Tweet on July 22

Angela Brown, Vice President People’s National Party; Councillor for The Norman Gardens Division in the KSAC

Mayor Angela Brown-Burke of Kingston, Jamaica, told CNS that if local people have no options, they will continue to use polluting fuels.

“People aren’t stubborn. They are trying to make a living,” she said. “They say, ‘If I need fuel, don’t tell me not to cut down my trees because that’s the only way I am going to be able to cook my food.’”

Communities will need to provide the alternatives if any of the environmental awareness campaigns are going to work, she said.

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