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COP30 drew record Indigenous participation — but were their voices heard?
… a leading role in conservation as their homelands intersect with large swaths of the planet's biodiversity, including forests — a key player in mitigating climate change. Trees pull carbon …
COP30's global ethics initiative aims to break chronic malaise on climate action
… . "I often say we already possess virtually all the technical solutions for climate change, biodiversity loss, and even pressing social issues," Silva said at the GES launch in June. "What …
Bishops, humanitarian leader urge bold, courageous action at UN climate conference
… indigenous peoples, involuntary migrants and believers throughout the world." "Climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental degradation are devastating communities already burdened by …
Tackle ecological debt, protect biodiversity and change hearts, says Vatican diplomat
… the challenges at hand: rectifying ecological debt, taking concerted action to protect biodiversity, and promoting "education for integral ecology." A moral and ethical response to … technologies, and capacity building." The archbishop also urged "ambitious action to preserve biodiversity," which he said is "not optional, but a moral duty of stewardship." "The rapid loss …
As Africa prepares for COP30, its Catholic bishops urge African solutions on climate
… energy solutions, renewable agricultural approaches and simple technologies that protect biodiversity and respect cultural heritage. They also urge investment in community-driven …
Messages that mobilize: How to convince church leadership to take climate action
… rather than abstract concepts like "climate change." Van Cleef has had more luck bringing up biodiversity loss, which resonates for his Kentucky audiences. He notes in the past 40 years, …
Take a treeish point of view on this year's Season of Creation
… being ravaged." As we face challenges such as pollution, armed conflicts over access to water, biodiversity loss, extreme weather phenomena, deforestation, and forests that are "peppered with … ecology is provided. I would add the 100 Million Trees Project in Ireland, which heightens "biodiversity significantly and importantly, facilitates a very rapid carbon sink." The …
Activists decry new border wall's impact on wildlife
… San Rafael Valley grasslands, halting cross-border movement of animals in an area of extreme biodiversity. The wildlife includes bobcats, speedy pronghorn, pig-like javelina, gregarious … for its effects on soil, water and air, yet few careful studies are made of its impact on biodiversity, as if the loss of species or animals and plant groups were of little importance," says the encyclical's section on biodiversity. It adds: "Highways, new plantations, the fencing-off of certain areas, the damming …
Rural Catholics can help the whole church appreciate land as a gift from God
… adopted regenerative agriculture models. The Belprez family practices soil conservation and biodiversity enhancement. They rotate their cattle on pasture every 24 hours for most of the …
In his 100 days as pope, Leo links climate, environment to broader global issues
… and the greed that fuels them are spawning deforestation, pollution and the loss of biodiversity. Extreme natural phenomena caused by climate changes provoked by human activity are … change, and vice versa. The social injustice caused by natural disasters and the loss of biodiversity must be reversed in order to achieve a just ecological transition, that places the … national and local agencies is needed to adopt strategies that prioritize the regeneration of biodiversity and soil richness. — Message to participants in the 44th session of the U.N. Food …
San Antonio park dispute pits Indigenous ceremony against historic preservation
… Communications Brian Chasnoff said in a statement that those measures will increase wildlife biodiversity, water quality and park access. But Torres disagrees and was visibly shaken when a …
Catholics must respond to environmental injustice with prayer, concrete action, pope says
… and the greed that fuels them are spawning deforestation, pollution and the loss of biodiversity." "Extreme natural phenomena caused by climate changes provoked by human activity …
Vatican program to turn Laudato Si' words into environmental action presses forward
… action on climate change and other environmental crises like pollution, deforestation and biodiversity loss. Organizers with the platform often cited the theory that mobilizing a small …
10 NCR editorials call for climate action from US bishops, ordinary Catholics and beyond
… ecological justice at two upcoming U.N. conferences — COP27 on climate change and COP15 on biodiversity. And a top Vatican official has expressed support for the proposed Fossil Fuel …
Augustinian sisters sustain environment and livelihoods in Mozambique
… Biodiversity-friendly farming by women … Mozambique since the Oct. 9 election. Against this backdrop, Jacinto and Chinchay run the Biodiversity and Agricultural Program, founded in Nampula in 2022. This program supports female … Chinchay said the challenges the sisters are facing in running the biodiversity and environmental program in Mozambique are worsening due to increasingly stretched …
Protect life by protecting the oceans, faith groups tell UN conference
… to fulfill ocean conservation targets under international pacts on climate change and biodiversity, faith groups raised deep-sea mining and industrial overfishing as growing concerns. "The unchecked extraction and commercialization of marine resources threaten biodiversity, disrupt ecosystems, and diminish the ocean's ability to sustain life. We must …
10 years later, Pope Francis' Laudato Si' is more relevant than ever
… a description of other threats to the environment, including threats to water supplies and biodiversity. He also looks at how environmental degradation has affected human life and society. …
Laudato Si': A drop in the ocean or a powerful oceanic undercurrent? It's up to us.
… the issue quite succinctly: I used to think the top global environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse, and climate change. I thought with 30 years of good …
US bishops urge young people to 'lead the way' on climate crisis
… many people in poverty, often in communities already excluded by society. Climate change, biodiversity loss, and industrial pollution threaten the livelihoods and food security of …
Catholic bishops call for mutual respect, environmental justice in Africa-EU relations
… as a way of protecting farmer-managed seed systems — the repositories of Africa's agricultural biodiversity and a key to food sovereignty. They also sought an immediate ban on exporting and … greenhouse gas emissions. They also said soil degradation, poisoned water and the loss of biodiversity, due to climate change and development, is harming the continent. "Hunger in Africa …