A high-profile Vatican conference on climate change offers a glimpse into an expected statement from Pope Francis that could throw the full weight of the Roman Catholic Church into the fight against global warming. Tuesday's conference featured appearances by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Vatican leaders close to Pope Francis, and representatives of several other faiths in a likely preview of a papal encyclical on the subject. "Because this is such a high-level meeting, it indicates that people at those levels are very enthusiastic about what Pope Francis is doing here," Dan Misleh, executive director of the US-based Catholic Climate Covenant, told VICE News. "I think it gives them ? and a lot of us, frankly ? a little bit more hope that we can solve this."

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