November 17, 2025
Bishop Jon Hansen, of the NWT’s Mackenzie-Fort Smith diocese, has joined a Catholic humanitarian aid agency’s delegation to the 2025 United Nations climate summit in Belém, Brazil.
Hansen and Bishop Martin Laliberté of Trois-Rivières are two of an eight-person delegation sent to the COP30 conference by Development and Peace – Caritas Canada.
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COP – the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change – is the planet’s biggest climate gathering.