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### Viewing cable 09VATICAN119, POPE TURNS UP THE HEAT ON ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

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09VATICAN119 | 2009-11-19 15:03 | 2010-12-19 12:12 | CONFIDENTIAL | Embassy Vatican

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    RUEHCP/AMEMBASSY COPENHAGEN PRIORITY 0001
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    RUEHROV/AMEMBASSY VATICAN 1229

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    C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 02 VATICAN 000119

    SIPDIS

    E.O. 12958: DECL: 11/17/2034
    TAGS: AORC BEXP EAGR ENRG FAO PGOV PREL SENV UN DA SF
    VT
    SUBJECT: POPE TURNS UP THE HEAT ON ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

    REF: A. A) VATICAN 104
    ¶B. B) VATICAN 96

    VATICAN 00000119 001.2 OF 002

    CLASSIFIED BY: Rafael Foley, Pol Chief.
    REASON: 1.4 (b), (d)
    ¶1. (SBU) Summary: Pope Benedict addressed the opening of the
    World Food Summit urging leaders to care for the world's hungry
    and protect the environment. Similarly, at the UN General
    Assembly, the Vatican nuncio stressed the need for a
    comprehensive international energy policy that protects the
    environment and limits climate change. Meanwhile Vatican
    officials remain largely supportive of genetically modified
    crops as a vehicle for protecting the environment while feeding
    the hungry, but -- at least for now -- are unwilling to
    challenge bishops who disagree. End Summary.

    ¶2. (U) In remarks at the opening of the World Food Security
    Summit in Rome on November 16th, Pope Benedict devoted over one
    third of his speech to the link between food security and
    environmental degradation. The Pope stressed that states have
    an obligation to future generations to reduce environmental
    degradation. Citing the probable link between environmental
    destruction and climate change, he stated that protecting the
    environment requires "change in the lifestyles of individuals
    and communities, in habits of consumption and in perceptions of
    what is genuinely needed." Benedict urged the international
    community to promote development while safeguarding the planet.

    ¶3. (SBU) The Pope also stated that access to "sufficient,
    healthy and nutritious" food is a fundamental right upheld by
    the Catholic Church. Linking development with use of
    agricultural technologies (i.e., biotechnologies), Benedict
    stressed good governance and further infrastructure development
    as essential to increasing food security over the long-term.
    (Note: Benedict's mention of agricultural technologies is a
    small but significant step towards more vocal Vatican support
    of biotechnologies. End Note)

    ¶4. (C) In a separate meeting November 11, Poloff spoke with
    Monsignor James Reinert, the point person on food security and
    biotechnology at the Vatican's Council of Justice and Peace - a
    Vatican think tank on social issues . Reinert said the Vatican
    agrees that countries must be empowered to increase domestic
    agricultural production and that genetically modified crops
    (GMOs) have a role in this process, but not everybody in the
    Church is comfortable with them. The Vatican cannot force all
    bishops to endorse biotechnology, he said, particularly if their
    opposition has to do with concerns over protecting profits
    oflarge corporations who hold the patents for the crops, versus
    feeding the hungry. In the Philippines, he noted, bishops
    strongly protested GMOs in the past. (Note: South African
    Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier's November 16 comments to a news
    agency that "Africans do not need GMOs, but water" is another
    example of specific Church leaders skeptical about the potential
    benefits of new biotechnologies. End note.).

    ¶5. (U) Comment: The Vatican is publicly stressing in various
    fora the need to care for the environment in the run-up to the
    Copenhagen Climate Change Summit. Pope Benedict places caring
    for the environment ("the creation") as a central social,
    economic and moral issue to his papacy. The Pope's proposal to
    curb environmental degradation is for people everywhere to
    reject excessive materialism and consumerism. In the Vatican's
    view, unsustainable lifestyles in developed countries--and not
    population growth worldwide--is to blame for global warming.
    Vatican officials claim that the planet has the capacity to feed
    and sustain its expanding population, provided resources are
    properly distributed and waste controlled. Until recently,
    Vatican officials often noted that the countries that released
    most of the greenhouse gases were not the world's most populous.
    As China and India industrialize and release more greenhouse
    gases, however, the Vatican may find it more difficult to blame
    climate change on lifestyles only. Even as this happens,
    however, the Vatican will continue to oppose aggressive
    population control measures to fight hunger or global warming.

    ¶6. (SBU) While the Vatican's message on caring for the
    environment is loud and clear, its message on biotechnologies
    is still low-profile (ref. b). Quietly supportive, the Church
    considers the choice of whether to embrace GMOs as a technical
    decision for farmers and governments. The Vatican's own

    VATICAN 00000119 002.2 OF 002

    scientific academy has stated that there is no evidence GMOs are
    harmful, and that they could indeed be part of addressing global
    food security. However, when individual Church leaders, for
    ideological reasons or ignorance, speak out against GMOs, the
    Vatican does not -- at least not yet -- feel that it is its duty
    to challenge them. Post will continue to lobby the Vatican to
    speak up in favor of GMOs, in the hope that a louder voice in
    Rome will encourage individual Church leaders elsewhere to
    reconsider their critical views. End Comment.
    DIAZ

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