Pope Francis urges radical response to climate crisis at Cop26 – video

Pope Francis has urged world leaders to offer ‘concrete hope’ to future generations. In a special message for BBC Radio 4‘s Thought for the Day, before the Cop26 summit in Glasgow next week, the pontiff said climate change and Covid-19 had ‘raised numerous doubts and concerns about … the way we organise our societies’. These global crises could only be overcome through ‘a renewed sense of shared responsibility for our world’, he added

• Pope Francis urges leaders to take ‘radical’ climate action at Cop26