Pope Francis addresses energy representatives at the end of a two-day meeting at the Academy of Sciences, at the Vatican, June 14, 2019. Vatican Media/Handout via REUTERS
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis said on Friday that carbon pricing is "essential" to stem global warming - his clearest statement yet in support of penalising polluters - and appealed to climate change deniers to listen to science.
In an address to energy executives at the end of a two-day meeting, he also called for "open, transparent, science-based and standardised" reporting of climate risk and a "radical energy transition" away from carbon to save the planet.
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