宗博季刊第121期

國際交流 19 that we need to return to the Oneness of Earth and Spirit, so that we can live sustainably and in harmony with the Earth.” Alok Sharma pointed out that faith leaders “have a unique way of being able to talk to world leaders” and that this is about “following the science, but also the morality of the argument.” The COP26 meeting, a 13 day event to be held in Glasgow starting on October 31st, will be attended by 100 global political leaders, including President Biden, and seeks to make deals to slow global warming and climate change. The afternoon meeting, taking place in the Italian Embassy to the Holy See, was devoted to the discussion of how awareness of what is happening to our only home, the Earth, can be increased, what actions need to be taken and how this group of Faith and Science might be able to continue its cooperation in the future. Alison Hilliard, the secretary of Faith and Science, urged all participants to send in their written recommendations on how the work of the group might best be carried on. While the meeting concluded with a reception in the British embassy, I stayed on for the educational meeting hosted the next day by the Vatican in honour of Teacher’s Day, which is celebrated on October 5. Those of us who took part in this meeting were seated around a round table together with Pope Francis, who, on Sep. 12, 2019, had launched the Global compact on Education by summoning representatives from around the world to Rome to sign a pledge on education, a commitment to defend the dignity of each human being, to educate for peace and ecology, to prevent discrimination and fundamentalism. As Pope Francis had written in his encyclical Laudato Si’, “Education will be inadequate