Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, reads a message from Pope Leo XIV to the Leaders Summit Nov. 7, 2025, during COP30, the U.N. Climate Change Conference, in Belem, Brazil. (CNS/COP30/Rafa Pereira)
COP30, the United Nations climate summit, takes place Nov. 10-21 in Belem, Brazil, at the gateway to the Amazon rainforest. Nearly 200 countries, as well as Catholic and other faith-based organizations, are expected to take part in the latest round of negotiations seeking global action and solutions to human-caused climate change.
As world leaders gather in Belém, Brazil, for the COP30 climate summit, faith leaders call out the "tragic, sinful gap between the call to care for creation and the failure of governments to act."
With COP30 underway in Brazil, faith leaders say the time for polite appeals is over. From Turkana's dry fields to the Amazon's burning forests, the church is turning to action and demanding world leaders keep their promises.
As leaders prepare to meet in Belém, Brazil, women living the climate emergency in Kenya and across Africa are demanding global action, gender justice and investment in local adaptation.
As Lake Victoria's rising waters displace families, Catholic leaders and villagers plant bamboo to restore their land and send a message to world leaders meeting in Brazil.
Catholic sisters standing with Maasai families being displaced in northern Tanzania warn world leaders in Brazil that climate solutions built on forced displacement betray human dignity and faith in creation.
