Climatologist will be part of a Catholic Church group with priests and theology researchers
On Monday (March 30, 2026), Brazilian climatologist Carlos Nobre was appointed to the . The council deals with topics such as human rights, justice, peace, health, migration, humanitarian emergencies and charitable works of the Catholic Church.
A retired researcher from , Nobre is internationally recognized for his research on climate and global warming. Currently, he works at the University of São Paulo.
The Dicastery for the Service of Integral Human Development was created by Pope Francis in August 2016, in the Apostolic Letter Humanam Progressionem.
It is the result of the merger of 4 pre-existing Pontifical Councils: Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People, the Pontifical Council Cor Unum and the Pontifical Council for Health Workers for the Pastoral Care of Health.
Among the body’s tasks is “promote the human person and his God-given dignity, human rights, health, justice and peace”.
They are also within its scope.”issues related to the economy and work, the care of creation and the land as a ‘common home’, migration and humanitarian emergencies”in addition to deepening and disseminating the Church’s social doctrine on integral human development.
Read the list of the pope’s other nominees to form the Dicastery:
- Archbishop Rogelio Cabrera López (Mexico);
- Archbishop Fulgence Muteba Mugalu (Democratic Republic of Congo);
- Bishop Lizardo Estrada Herrera (Peru);
- Father Daniel Gerard Groody (associate dean of undergraduate studies at the University of Notre Dame, USA);
- Father Rampeoane Hlobo (director of the Jesuit Justice and Ecology Network in Nairobi, Kenya);
- sister Linah Siabana (Uganda);
- Meghan J. Clark (vice dean of the department of theology and religious studies at Saint John’s University, USA);
- Dylan Mason Corbett (executive director of Hope Border Institute, USA);
- Léocadie Wabo Lushombo (professor of ethical theology at Santa Clara University, USA);
- Christine Nathan (president of the International Catholic Commission on Migration, Geneva, Switzerland).
With information from .
