Brian Roewe

A U.N. climate summit facing the daunting task to put countries back on track to prevent catastrophic global warming will take place without Pope Francis. Catholics heading to COP28 vowed his message would still be heard.

Environmental groups say the East African Crude Oil Pipeline undermines goals to combat climate change and threatens to ruin ecosystems and displace communities. A new report alleges the threat also extends to the dead.

Catholics hope Pope Francis' first-ever papal visit to a United Nations climate change conference at COP28 in Dubai this year can be the push international climate talks need to get back on track.

Religious leaders have called on decision-makers to use COP28 to usher in a rapid transition to clean energy sources, and for nations to establish accountability mechanisms to hold them to climate action pledges.

As President Biden urged global cooperation at the U.N. to combat climate change, U.S. Catholic groups are calling on his administration to use debt relief to help countries most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.

As industrialized countries concentrate climate responses on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, Honduras shoulders climate adaptation amid the impacts of global fossil fuel use. When adapting isn't possible, some migrate.

Speakers at an Aug. 29 event at Duquesne University on  responses to pollution and climate change, newly elected U.S. Rep. Summer Lee, said pollution in the area is "better" but not good enough. 

Archbishop Borys Gudziak and Bishop David Malloy, chairs of the domestic and international justice and peace committees for the U.S. bishops' conference, urged ecological conversion both in personal lifestyles and public policy around environmental justice and climate change.

Reports have traced funding for the blitz against ESG —  investment practices based on environmental, social and governance criteria — to the fossil fuel industry as well as right-wing and libertarian groups.

Hundreds of faith leaders have called on the Environmental Protection Agency to implement the strongest possible standards to cut greenhouse gas emissions from the nation's fossil fuel-fired power plants.

The Catholic Climate Covenant honored 13 Laudato Si' Champions at all levels of the U.S. church July 27 during the third "Laudato Si' and the U.S. Catholic Church" conference, co-hosted with Creighton University.

A provision in 2022's historic climate law that permits tax-exempt entities to qualify for clean energy tax credits is a "game changer" for faith communities, said Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm.

U.S. Catholics join the rest of the nation in strongly backing actions to reduce the impacts of climate change, but they're also more supportive of expanding coal mining, fracking and offshore drilling than other Americans.

The Church of England has announced it will cease investments in Shell, BP, ExxonMobil and other top oil and gas companies after concluding all are out of step with worldwide efforts to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

Christiana Figueres, the United Nations official who brokered the 2015 Paris Agreement, , outlines the moral, technological and economic imperatives to commit to net-zero carbon emissions by 2040.

When a Catholic urban planner noticed D.C. church properties weren't living up to their sustainability potential, he helped start Laudato Trees, a collaborative program to address the climate needs of city and church.

Organized by Teens4Unity, the youth branch of the Focolare Movement, this year's Run4Unity event emphasized ecological conservation inviting groups to exchange their kilometers and minutes for newly planted trees.

More than 31% of Citigroup shareholders supported a resolution brought by Catholic congregations that called for a review of the bank's financing policies around climate change and Indigenous rights. The vote took place April 25.

St. Anthony Parish's solar panel project also served as a first step toward flipping the switch on a wider effort to electrify the entire Sacramento Diocese in living out the message of Laudato Si'.

Thirteen Catholic institutions are among 31 faith organizations to announce they are ending financial investments in fossil fuels for the sake of the planet. No U.S. dioceses have publicly divested.