Before he was pope, Leo XIV said it’s time for action on climate change
By Brian Roewe
EarthBeat
May 9, 2025
The world is still getting to know Pope Leo XIV, and that includes where he stands on environmental issues like climate change.
Even with few details, environmentalists both within and outside the Catholic Church seem optimistic based on what they have learned so far about Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, the Augustinian friar and first successor to St. Peter from the United States.
Ronald Moreno, a Peruvian grassroots leader and Catholic environmental activist, was familiar with Leo during his time as bishop of Chiclayo. He called him “a pope with a Peruvian heart.”