Did faith stand a chance of breaking the UN climate deadlock?

It was also, in a unique way, a Laudato si’ COP. The president of the conference, André Corrêa do Lago, said COP30 would take the encyclical “as an ethical compass and a pragmatic guide”, inspired by the “legacy of Pope Francis”. No previous COP president had acknowledged the moral and spiritual stakes of the UN climate negotiations so overtly. Amid the massive financial interests that dog the talks each year, to commit to hearing “the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor” was radical. But did it make any difference? Can faith make any difference to something as creaky and deadlocked as the UN negotiating process?

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