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The head of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis, has a stark warning to around 50 of the world's top oil company executives about the threat to humanity from fossil fuels. At a private, closed-door meeting in the Vatican on Saturday, the pontiff the oil companies to to renewable energies for the sake of our planet. He the executives that fossil fuels a major driver in climate change and that global warming a challenge of "epochal proportions". He the companies to act quickly, saying: "There is no time to ." He warned that: "With each month that passes, the challenge of energy transition more pressing."

Pope Francis how important it was for the world to transition to greener forms of energy. He said: "The energy question has one of the principal challenges...facing the international community. The way we this challenge will our overall quality of life." Francis said fossil fuels are a contributor to poverty, war and death around the world as they , "the real possibility either of resolving conflicts in different areas of our world or of...providing them with new fuel to social stability and human lives." He : "Civilization energy, but energy use must not destroy civilization....Clean energy is a duty that we towards ...generations yet to ."