Explosive intervention by Pope Francis set to transform climate change debate

James Murray
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The most anticipated papal letter for decades will be published in five languages on Thursday. It will call for an end to the 'tyrannical' exploitation of nature by mankind. Could it lead to a step-change in the battle against global warming?

Pope Francis will call for an ethical and economic revolution to prevent catastrophic climate change and growing inequality in a letter to the world's 1.2 billion Catholics on Thursday. In an unprecedented...

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