The author of the report, Arjen Wals, UNESCO Chair of Social Learning and Sustainable Development at Wageningen University, The Netherlands, presented the publication.

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"His lung capacity is diminished, logically, but this hasn't affected him at all or kept him from carrying forward all of his activities, " said Federico Wals, spokesman for the Buenos Aires diocese where the new pontiff previously presided as archbishop.

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