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🗓️ 5 December 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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It’s been ten years since Pope Francis issued his landmark encyclical on climate and caring for our common home, Laudato Si’. With the election of the new Pope Leo XIV, many are hopeful he will follow in Francis' path.  Three-quarters of the global population follow a major religion. And the Catholic Church is far from alone among religious institutions in its directives to care for creation. A few years after Laudato Si, Muslim leaders issued Al-Mizan, which restates principles from the Quran on protecting nature in terms of meeting current challenges. Organizations like Interfaith Power and Light, the Jewish group Dayenu, the Hindu Bhumi Project, and the Buddhist Climate Action Network demonstrate the universality of creation care as central to religions worldwide.  Especially at a time when governments are failing to take meaningful action on climate progress, can faith traditions provide new paths forward? Guests: Celia Deane-Drummond, Director, Laudato Si' Research Institute; Senior Research Fellow in Theology at Campion Hall, University of Oxford Rabbi Jennie Rosenn, Founder & CEO, Dayenu  Iyad Abumoghli, Founder, Former Director, Faith for Earth Coalition, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); Founder and Chair, Al-Mizan For show notes and related links, visit ClimateOne.org. Highlights:  00:00 – Intro 00:10 – Quick update on COP30 conclusions 03:40 – Celia Deane-Drummond explains importance of Laudato Si’ 08:15 – Will Pope Leo continue Pope Leo’s environmental legacy? 11:00 – Role of religion and ethics in climate conversations 17:45 – Rabbi Jennie Rosenn explains Jewish concept of Dayenu 20:30 – What religious leaders can do that political leaders can’t 26:30 – Rosenn on deregulatory agenda of EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin  37:45 – Iyad Abumoghli on how religion shapes human actions 40:30 – Al-Mizan’s origins and approach 51:00 – Faith and political leaders meeting to discuss the role of faith and values in facing climate change and climate justice 54:40 – Climate One More Thing ******** Support Climate One by going ad-free! By subscribing to Climate One on Patreon, you’ll receive exclusive access to all future episodes free of ads, opportunities to connect with fellow Climate One listeners, and access to the Climate One Discord. Sign up today. Ad sales by Multitude. Contact them for ad inquiries at multitude.productions/ads Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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And I'm Kushan Avadar.

1:02.8

And this is Climate 1.

1:08.1

All right, Kusha, COP30, the global annual Climate Summit, recently wrapped up in Bel-M, Brazil,

1:14.3

and honestly without a lot to show for it.

1:16.7

A lot of nations had hoped countries would adopt language pledging to transition away from fossil fuels,

1:22.2

but they didn't.

1:23.1

Ariana, excuse my French, but that is whack-a-doodle.

1:25.8

We're talking about a United Nations climate conference and the words fossil fuels didn't even appear in a final agreement until two years ago.

1:35.3

And still, world leaders can't agree to a promise to get off of them.

1:40.3

Right. There's a lot of pressure from oil- oil producing countries to not give in to this language.

1:47.0

However, countries did agree to triple the amount of money, promised to help poor countries

1:52.0

adapt to climate change, but on a slower timeline than many of those countries had hoped.

1:57.0

Yeah, I mean, it's disappointing to say the least, and it has a lot of people questioning the value of this annual conference altogether.

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