The Vatican is set to become solar
powered as Pope Francis has ordered the construction of an
agrivoltaic plant at its extraterritorial site at Santa Maria di
Galeria on the edge of Rome to meet the city state's energy
needs.
The pope ordered the move at the the 424-hectare site, which
houses the transmission facilities for Vatican Radio, via an
motu proprio with an Apostolic Letter, Fratello Sole.
The letter highlights the need to "to make a transition to a
sustainable development model that reduces greenhouse gas
emissions into the atmosphere, setting the goal of climate
neutrality.
"Mankind has the technological means to deal with this
environmental transformation and its pernicious ethical, social,
economic and political consequences, and among these, solar
energy plays a key role".
The pope has repeatedly stressed the need for humanity to tackle
the climate crisis to protect creation, including via his 2015
encyclical Laudato sí.
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