The Vatican will be powered by solar energy in the future. Pope Francis has decided to build a photovoltaic system at the extraterritorial site of Santa Maria di Galeria on the outskirts of Rome to meet the energy needs of the world’s smallest state.
The pope ordered the construction of the 424-hectare site where Vatican Radio’s broadcasting facilities are already located, the Vatican said. Since 1951, this area has been declared extraterritorial by a treaty between Italy and the Holy See.
In the decree with which the Pope announced the construction of the photovoltaic system, the Pope underlines the need to “move to a sustainable development model that reduces greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere and strives for the goal of climate neutrality.”
“Solar energy plays a key role”
“Humanity has the technological means to tackle this ecological transition and its disastrous ethical, social, economic and political consequences, and solar energy has a key role to play,” Francis said.
The Pope has repeatedly emphasized that humanity must tackle the climate crisis to preserve creation, including in his 2015 encyclical Laudato si’ (Praised be to you).
Source: Krone
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