Philippines to raise 10m signatures for pope’s climate petition

The world's third-largest Catholic country is plagued by natural disasters and church leaders say they will mobilise believers to join Pope Francis's campaign

Asia's largest Catholic country has mobilised after the pope's warning to tackle climate change, promising to gather 10m signatures for a petition that will be handed to world leaders at a Paris climate summit in November.

The Catholic climate petition aims to pressure countries to drastically cut carbon emissions to keep the global temperature rise below the dangerous 1.5C threshold, and to help the world's poorest to cope with climate change.