Vatican is going solar, Pope to transition City to 100% green energy | Pope Francis has now asked Vatican authorities to begin constructing a solar plant.

From the article: Pope Francis announces his plans to transition the Vatican to 100% solar power to support climate change efforts.

In his motu proprio Fratello Sole, an official proclamation of the Pope to the Roman Catholic Church, he diffused his instructions to the Vatican authorities to begin working with Italian officials to turn the Vatican into a green organization, as reported by aciafrica.

The Catholic Church first began publicly addressing climate change with Pope Paul VI, who expressed his concern in 1971 that humanity’s “exploitation of nature runs the risk of destroying it.”

However, most notably and recently, under the stewardship of Benedict XVI two decades ago, the Vatican began diffusing plans to become the first “carbon neutral state” with the building of the Vatican Forest in Hungary in 2007. That has yet to materialize though. All the same, in 2008, the Vatican installed 2,400 solar panels on the roofs of Vatican’s Paul VI Hall, as per aciafrica.