(Brussels) Just before COP 15 in Copenhagen, 2009, “everyone hoped for a binding agreement replacing the Kyoto Protocol”, but “that hope did not become real”, and “nothing actually changed since then”. The “Climate Protection Report to the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community (COMECE) started from that; the Report was published by a group of five experts just before COP 21 in Paris. However, today there is “cautious hope” for the possible reaching of a “binding agreement limiting increase in world average temperatures to 2 C° with respect to the average temperatures in the pre-industrial period”. The reasons for that are “the growing consciousness of public opinion on the need to protect climate”, and a few recent “political and economic developments”. “The most difficult obstacles” for a binding agreement are “great difference between rich and poor countries – according to COMECE’s experts – and the particular role played by newly industrialised countries”: elements requiring specific measures. Recalling Pope Francis’s Laudato Sì’ encyclical, the COMECE Report (www.comece.eu) also launches the appeal for “individual conversion” and “structural conversion on political, economic and social level”. “The constant, tenacious and competent commitment” of the Church, COMECE, Christian and non-Christian non-profit organisations is documented in the Report through a list of examples and references to current activities.