Tackle climate change to end hunger says pope in World Food Day message

(ANSA) - Rome, October 14 - Pope Francis on Friday called a global response to end hunger, emphasizing the emergency caused by climate change was hitting food security in many areas worldwide, in his message for World Food Day.
    The pontiff expressed hope that the objectives outlined by principles of the December 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement do not "remain pretty words, but become courageous decisions able to make solidarity not only a virtue but also a working model in economics, and fraternity no longer an aspiration but a criterion for domestic and international governance".
    Italian Premier Matteo Renzi on Friday attended an event at the Rome headquarters of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), organized ahead of World Food Day on October 16.
    Renzi said Italy hoped to approve the Paris agreement before next month's United Nations Climate Change conference, COP22, in Marrakesh.
    He also said he was proud of a new law that seeks to curtail food waste in Italy by encouraging retailers to give food they would throw away to the poor.
    "With the law on food waste, we can go from 500,000 tonnes of saved food today to one million tonnes in 2017," he said.