Climate: Future Generations and Climate Crisis

climate: Future generations stand to inherit a greatly spoiled world, according to The Guardian. Our children and grandchildren should not have to pay the cost of our generation's irresponsibility, he said, in his strongest and most direct intervention yet on the climate crisis. He said a radical energy transition would be needed to stay within that limit, and urged young people and businesses to take a leading role. Indeed, as is becoming increasingly clear, young people are calling for a change. It followed a similar meeting last year, but this time the Pope's stance was tougher as he warned that time was running out and urged them to hear the increasingly desperate cries of the earth and its poor . Carbon emissions from energy industry rise at fastest rate since 2011Read more The chief executives or chairs of BP, Exxon Mobil, Shell, Total, Conoco Philips, Chevron and several major investors including Black Rock and Hermes, responded by calling on governments to put in place carbon pricing to encourage low-carbon innovation, and called for greater financial transparency to aid investors. The Pope's impassioned plea came as he met the leaders of some of the world's biggest multinational oil companies in the Vatican on Friday to impress upon them the urgency and scale of the challenge, and their central role in tackling the emissions crisis. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.