In this follow-up to his 2015 encyclical Laudato Si, Pope Francis emphasises the need to consolidate respect for the most elementary human rights, social rights and the protection of our common home.

"It is not enough to think only of balances of power but also of the need to provide a response to new problems and to react with global mechanisms to the environmental, public health, cultural and social challenges, especially in order to consolidate respect for the most elementary human rights, social rights and the protection of our common home. It is a matter of establishing global and effective rules that can permit “providing for” this global safeguarding." (LD 42)