{"id":51334,"date":"2025-10-02T10:36:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T10:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/schwarzenegger-joins-vatican-climate-initiative"},"modified":"2025-10-02T10:50:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T10:50:53","slug":"schwarzenegger-joins-vatican-climate-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/schwarzenegger-joins-vatican-climate-initiative","title":{"rendered":"Schwarzenegger Joins Vatican Climate Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Eritrea. <\/strong><\/span><b>Arnold Schwarzenegger downplayed the US Trump administration\u2019s climate scepticism Tuesday and threw his weight behind the Vatican\u2019s environmental initiative, saying individual choice, local policies and the moral leadership of the Catholic Church were far more important than national politics to \u201cterminate\u201d pollution and climate change.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Schwarzenegger was at the Vatican to headline a three-day climate conference marking the 10th anniversary of Pope Francis\u2019 landmark 2015 environmental encyclical, Laudato Si&#8217; (Praised Be).<\/p>\n<p>The document cast saving God\u2019s creation as an urgent moral imperative and launched a broad, grassroots movement that Pope Leo XIV has fully embraced and made his own.<\/p>\n<p>Schwarzenegger, the former Republican governor of California, has devoted time to environmental causes since leaving political office in 2011. His Schwarzenegger Climate Initiative is one of the backers of the Vatican conference, which is being held at the Holy See\u2019s newly inaugurated environmental educational center in Castel Gandolfo south of Rome.<\/p>\n<p>At a news conference, Schwarzenegger was asked about President Donald Trump\u2019s recent comments to the UN General Assembly, where he said that climate change was a \u201ccon job.\u201d Trump has long been a critic of climate science and polices aimed at helping the world transition to green energies like wind and solar. The Trump administration has rolled back landmark regulations, withdrawn climate project funding and instead bolstered support for oil and gas production in the name of an \u201cAmerican energy dominance\u201d agenda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t use the federal government as an excuse,\u201d Schwarzenegger told the Vatican briefing. \u201cThat&#8217;s an easy way out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He recalled his legal battles with the then-Bush administration over California\u2019s environmental regulations when he was governor, and a particular victory where \u201cWe said \u2018Hasta la vista, baby,\u2019\u201d Schwarzenegger said, quoting his famous line from Terminator 2.<\/p>\n<p>Schwarzenegger said far more important were individual choices about turning off lights when you leave a room and state policies promoting solar power.<\/p>\n<p>With its 1.4 billion people, 400,000 priests the Catholic Church also has a critical mass of people who can back environmental initiatives, he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Eritrea<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Eritrea. Arnold Schwarzenegger downplayed the US Trump administration\u2019s climate scepticism Tuesday and threw his weight behind the Vatican\u2019s environmental initiative, saying individual choice, local policies and the moral leadership of the Catholic Church were far more important than national politics to \u201cterminate\u201d pollution and climate change. 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