A new study from the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) looks at the differing views of US Catholics on the environmental issues raised by Pope Francis, and specially addresses their views on what has come to be known as “climate justice”.

Climate justice is an approach to environmental action that focuses on the unequal impacts of climate change on marginalised or otherwise vulnerable populations around the world. The term is reported to have first gained prominence during the 1980s in academia, and the issue of climate justice is now one of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Many of its tenets have been pushed to the fore by Pope Francis during his papacy.