Rome. That solar farm will produce enough energy to power over 40,000 houses and exceed the EU's renewable energy targets of 20 percent of demand by 2020. The UK is also working with the Holy See as part of our South America Climate Change Network which aims to raise awareness of climate change between the most recent summit at Copenhagen and the next gathering at Cancun.

But it is not just the Holy See's practical elements on climate change which are important to us. Climate change is a curious mix of moral cause and strategic interest. The moral dimension is crucial in addressing climate change. We saw that moral dimension emerge very clearly in the Pope's latest Encyclical 'Caritas in Veritate' when he called for the development of an integral human life with greater emphasis on human responsibility to creation.

##### Disarmament

I did say we didn't have a defence section in the Embassy and that is something that we have worked on not because we looking for the Swiss Guards to decommission their weapons but actually to do things like the Cluster Munitions Treaty where we would not have the breakthrough that we have got with the Wellington preparatory conference in 2008 on the Cluster Munitions Treat if it wasn't for the Holy See delegation working with the United Kingdom. We were in our respective camps - the Holy See being more with the NGOs and more with the neutral states, the United Kingdom was more with those countries that have significant arms industries. But our two delegations came together and actually built that diplomatic bridge that allowed a negotiation to be reached which then led to the final breakthrough at the Dublin meeting and our disarmament ambassador in Geneva credits the Holy See's work in Wellington as actually providing that breakthrough in getting agreement between the different camps. Without that help it is unlikely that we would have been able to sign the Cluster Munitions Treaty last December. Again today we are working on the Arms Trade Treaty and the UK is actively working together with the Holy See at the UN to deliver an Arms Trade Treaty which would aim to introduce a more responsible global framework for the arms trade. So those are three strands of our activity - there are others and we can go into greater detail during the questions, but just to give you a taster.

Conclusion In summary, 'religion matters' as much in foreign policy as domestic. 'God is neither back nor dead' because religion was always there. Rather it was the dominant western perspective that was too narrow and deterministic and did not pick it up or ignored it. What I hope I have shown this evening is that to understand the world in which we live, we have to comprehend religion as a source of influence and motivation in peoples' real lives. Religious motivations simply do not disappear because they are not mentioned. Simplistic and catch-all sentiments rarely if ever convey the complexity of our world, so too when talking about religion and foreign policy. It is not sufficient to see our faiths as being alien to our cultures or being exclusively associated with negative frameworks such as violence or terror. Nor is it the case that we should move from a position which ignores religion as an issue in foreign policy to seeing it as 'The' issue in foreign policy. That too would be flawed.