John Kaweske

The interesting news on environment: With the installation of solar panels and the announcement of that she will plant a forest to compensate its carbonic gas emissions (CO2), the Been minor of the world, the Vatican, enters in the fight for the defense of the environment. Since that he was chosen, Blessed Pope XVI made some calls in defense of the environment, in way that the Vatican had that if to place as example Therefore, the pontifical State accepted the uncommon gift of the American company Planktos Inc. and the Hungarian company Klimafa: the plantation of a forest in Hungarian territory in the year that comes, which goes to compensate the Co2 emissions proceeding from its about a thousand inhabitants. Of this form, the Vatican, with a territory of half squared kilometer, goes to changed itself – virtually – into the first State with emission zero in the planet. The agreement, beyond serving of advertising for the two companies, also goes to represent a chance Vatican it to acquire knowledge the other countries on the defense of the environment. ' ' This donation implies to reforest a part of a national park of the central Europe. In this way, the Vatican will make its part to contribute with the elimination of the Co2 emissions that threaten the survival of this planeta' ' , it affirmed the president of the Pontifical Advice of Culture, cardinal Paul Poupard. It added that ' ' protection of the environment is not a question politics that has that to be decided by the political parties, but yes an ethical problem and cultural' '. The dimensions of this new forest in the National Park Bukk, in the Hungria, that will call ' ' Climatic forest Vaticana' ' , they will depend on the amount of pollutant gases that the Vatican to emit in 2007. The initiatives of the Vatican to defend the nature also pass for the adoption of the solar energy.