Pope urges politicians to take 'drastic measures' on climate change

VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis challenged governments on Sunday to take"drastic measures" to combat global warming and reduce the use of fossil fuels, saying the world was experiencing a climate emergency.

Francis has made many calls for environmental protection and has clashed over climate change with sceptics leaders such as US President Donald Trump, who has taken the United States out of the Paris accord. He listed constant pollution, continued use of fossil fuels, intensive agricultural exploitation and deforestation as being among the man-made causes of global warming and said the Amazon, where fires are raging, is"gravely threatened".

Other phenomena, such as the melting of glaciers and the presence of plastic and microplastics in the oceans"testify to the urgent need for interventions that can no longer be postponed," he said.

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