Climate change puts peace, justice in peril, UN chief tells Franciscan college

Destructive impacts from climate change around the world are putting peace and justice “in peril,” the head of the United Nations said at an ecology conference Oct. 10 at Siena College, a Franciscan university in upstate New York.

António Guterres, the ninth U.N. secretary-general, in a prerecorded message told an audience of more than 1,000 students, staff and visitors that the values embodied by St. Francis of Assisi and espoused by Pope Francis demand countries deliver on pledges to rapidly slash heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions and limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit), the high-end target under the Paris Agreement.

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