Nigeria, Nov. 14 -- Catholic organisations at the 31st meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP31) in Antalya, Turkey have called on governments to fund climate action in poorer countries with grants and to phase out coal, oil and gas.

Caritas Internationalis, a humanitarian network of 162 Catholic organisations, asked for a roadmap to triple adaptation finance to at least $120 billion a year by 2035, paid as grants that reach local communities, the group said in a statement.

"Deliver climate finance as justice, not charity," the network stated in a statement.

A wider coalition, the Network of Catholic Climate and Environment Actors, which works with the Vatican delegation at the cl...