{"id":977451,"date":"2021-11-06T16:44:15","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T20:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=977451"},"modified":"2021-11-06T16:44:17","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T20:44:17","slug":"vatican-newspaper-praises-john-kerrys-approach-to-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vatican-newspaper-praises-john-kerrys-approach-to-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Vatican Newspaper Praises John Kerry\u2019s Approach to Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvatican-newspaper-praises-john-kerrys-approach-to-climate-change%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=977451&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">ROME \u2014 The Vatican\u2019s <em>L\u2019Osservatore Romano<\/em> newspaper offered a fawning review Saturday of John Kerry\u2019s address this week at the COP26 Climate Change Conference, warning of the risk of \u201cclimate negligence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would be negligent to leave Glasgow and the COP26 international climate conference without establishing rules for verifying the commitment of individual states to resolve the emergency,\u201d the paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.osservatoreromano.va\/it\/news\/2021-11\/quo-253\/cop26-il-rischio.html\">states<\/a>, citing Kerry.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>It is no coincidence that Kerry chose the adjective \u201cnegligent\u201d to describe the risk at the end of the proceedings of \u201cthe most important climate conference ever,\u201d <em>L\u2019Osservatore Romano<\/em> declares.<\/p>\n<p>The participants in COP26 are endeavoring in these final days to give concreteness to ambitious commitments concerning deforestation and the abandonment of fossil fuels, the article continues, and what is needed now are rules to make sure that nations stick to their promises.<\/p>\n<p>The end result of the negligence of which Kerry has spoken would be \u201cfailure,\u201d the article adds, taking this in turn from the 18-year-old Swedish climate scold Greta Thunberg. Or, as Thunberg recently declared, the whole conference would be \u201cblah, blah, blah.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>It would be \u201cdangerous,\u201d <em>L\u2019Osservatore Romano<\/em> states, again referencing Kerry, to fail to verify frequently the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), that is, national plans for specific climate actions, including targets for greenhouse gas emission reductions and policies and measures governments implement in response to climate change.<\/p>\n<p>What is needed in the next 24 hours are measures to give teeth to verbal commitments in the form of written agreements, the article concludes, this time citing Alok Sharma, the president of COP26.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/environment\/2021\/11\/04\/wall-street-journal-climate-deaths-hit-record-low-in-2021\/\">noted<\/a> this week that all is not bleak on the climate front.<\/p>\n<p>Despite apocalyptic forecasts from alarmists, climate-related disasters and deaths have actually been <em>decreasing steadily<\/em> over the last hundred years, climate expert Bjorn Lomborg writes, and 2021 is projected to see the fewest climate-related deaths in recorded history.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18535930\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"33\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Lomberg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18535930\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Lomberg.jpg\" alt=\"A file picture shows Danish professor Bjorn Lomborg as he speaks with a journalist at the Bella center of Copenhagen on December 15, 2009 on the 9th day of the COP15 UN Climate Change Conference. Humanity has what it takes to adapt to global warming and there&#039;s no need to panic: so goes the message in a new documentary on the bad boy of the climate change debate, Bjoern Lomborg. AFP PHOTO \/ ADRIAN DENNIS (Photo credit should read ADRIAN DENNIS\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A file picture shows Danish Professor Bjorn Lomborg as he speaks with a journalist at the Bella Center of Copenhagen (ADRIAN DENNIS\/AFP via Getty Images).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Yearly weather-related damage is also decreasing as a percentage of global GDP, Lomborg notes.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s not \u201cblah, blah, blah.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tdwilliamsrome?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @tdwilliamsrome<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROME \u2014 The Vatican\u2019s L\u2019Osservatore Romano newspaper offered a fawning review Saturday of John Kerry\u2019s address this week at the COP26 Climate Change Conference, warning of the risk of \u201cclimate &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-977451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=977451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}