BRUSSELS — The pope was dead. And Teresa Ribera was mourning — not only for the man.
Pope Francis had embodied an era in which Ribera’s dream of a greener world, shaped by powerful international institutions and scientific advice, had seemed, at last, to be laid down in concrete.
Ten years had passed since Ribera’s highest moment: a year that saw the drafting of the Paris Agreement on climate change and the pope’s landmark environmental proclamation that made the moral case for action.
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By the time Francis died in April, Ribera was trying to stop it all from being torn down.
