Analysis Paper - Vatican Geopolitics on Climate Change

In fact, in 2005, with Pope Benedict XVI in the Vatican, a "crusade" against moral relativism and for the reconciliation of faith and reason began, with a moral campaign launched against neoliberal capitalism and in defence of the environment, and the denouncing of the effects of climate change16. [...] This rapprochement has been translated into a series of concrete actions, including the establishment of agreements with China, the maintenance of bridges with Russia (despite the invasion of Ukraine), mediation between the Cuban regime and the US administration, support for the process of national reconciliation in Venezuela, the maintenance of the (difficult) dialogue with Nicaragua, and 13 SOMI. [...] Placing the human being at the centre of the equation, the Pope advocates an ecology that is the fruit of a profound analysis of the causes of the current situation of environmental deterioration and not just of the symptoms and the effects that are already being suffered. [...] The League of Nations - the forerunner of the UN - was created in 1919 as a reaction to the horrors of the First World War (1914-1918). [...] Under the parameters of political idealism, and as an alternative to the balance of power, the aim was to limit the anarchy of the international system through the establishment of a supranational organization that would be protected by the international legal order and with a collective security mechanism.