Pope Francis will meet with some of the world's oil executives next week, likely to give them another moral nudge to clean up their act on global warming. Climate change policy and science experts are cautiously hopeful but aren't expecting any miracles or even noticeable changes. The conference will be a follow-up to the pope's encyclical three years ago calling on people to save the planet from climate change and other environmental ills, Vatican spokesman Greg Burke confirmed Friday. Woods said this week that his company is trying to balance the risks of climate change with growing demand for energy to raise living standards in the developing world. Oil companies have talked about fighting climate change, but they haven't done much beyond talk, said MIT management professor John Sterman.

Source: ABC News June 01, 2018 21:42 UTC