An appeal to "help solve the problem of the global warming of the planet" by implementing "policies to reduce the amount of carbon emissions in the atmosphere". It was made today to the G8 leaders, who will meet on Wednesday 6th June (until 8th June) in Heiligendamm, Germany, by the 2004 Peace Nobel Prize Winner Wangari Maathai, during the opening press conference for the XVIII General Assembly of Caritas Internationalis, which is taking place in the Vatican until June 9th, about: "Witnesses of love, craftsmen of peace". "Making the environmental issue a priority, to be pursued both locally and globally", exhorted the Nobel Prize winner to the great of the Earth, starting from the need to "protect our forests, especially where the ecosystem is most endangered", such as Asia, Latin America and Africa: all areas that have been "exploited by the countries of the North of the world, that are the greatest producers of greenhouse gases". To "all the parishes of the world", Maathai asked to "plant trees", not just to reduce and cut down carbon emissions, but also to "help change the mentality and the lifestyle".
