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To reach critical audiences, we need more faith-based climate news
… issues became exceedingly evident to me after the United Nations conference on climate change, COP27 , and the U.N. conference on biodiversity, COP15 , held late last year. With more than 3,000 reporters from 450 media houses at COP27, I was one of the few (perhaps the only one) from a Catholic broadcast media house like …
Feb 15, 2023
Catholic organization helps Mozambique prepare for and adapt to climate impacts
… awakened to the realities of speeding up policies around climate change adaptation. At COP27, the U.N. climate conference held in Egypt Nov. 6–18, the Mozambican delegation was led by …
Jan 24, 2023
Church finances hold untapped potential for fighting climate change
… loss and damages fund — the latest United Nations international conference on climate change (COP27) fell short by failing to name the main source of our global problem: the burning of fossil …
Jan 14, 2023
Let's celebrate the Epiphany with an eye on the future
… are afraid to ask voters to sacrifice. As U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said at the COP27 climate change summit, "We are on a highway to climate hell with our foot still on the …
Jan 6, 2023
EarthBeat's best of 2022
… update our theological imaginations about humanity's, and Earth's, place within it. … 2. As COP27 talks stall, Catholics smash tablets, pray for divine intervention on Sinai … By Doreen …
Dec 29, 2022
During COP15, Catholic activists urge action to protect biodiversity
… attention" during negotiations, said M'Kowiti. "Learning from the outcomes of the climate COP27 in Egypt, we must prepare to address the loopholes and the lack of political will that has …
Dec 16, 2022
Pope, Council of Cardinals meet, discuss synod, safeguarding, COP27
… day reflecting on the discussions and outcomes of the 27th U.N. Climate Change conference, or COP27, held in November in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, following reports given by Parolin and Ambongo …
Dec 7, 2022
In Advent, we hope and wait. Climate change doesn't lend itself to either.
… should be reducing the amount of carbon dioxide in the air. Nor did much hope come out of the COP27 meeting on global warming this month in Egypt. Even though United Nations Secretary General … reductions in greenhouse gases. As a Catholic, I was happy to see the Vatican delegation at COP27 continue to press for climate action as a moral obligation because of global warming's …
Dec 3, 2022
Editorial: Climate change needs a Catholic 'both/and' solution
… NCR Editorial Staff … Days before the end of COP27, the United Nations climate change conference held in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, in November, … campaign manager with the Laudato Si' Movement, tweeted about being forcibly removed from a COP27 event for speaking truth about fossil fuels. Romanko's unwelcome proclamation was twofold: … webinar Nov. 22 hosted by the International Union of Superiors General. Moggi attended COP27 on behalf of the faith-based nongovernmental organization VIVAT International. This is …
Dec 2, 2022
After COP27, we can still be rays of light for creation
… and disappointments for which definitive conclusions are elusive. What is clear is that COP27 failed to yield commitments that make substantive progress toward the three goals of the … low greenhouse gas emissions and climate-resilient development. The breakthrough moment of COP27 — the creation of a "loss and damage" fund for countries most impacted by climate change … the arrows of moral compasses to broader interpretations of "self-interest." For example, at COP27: An expanding group of world leaders, building off of the Bridgetown Initiative by Mia …
Nov 23, 2022
Last-minute COP27 deal on loss and damage called 'a real breakthrough'
… Brian Roewe … A historic, late-hour deal reached at the United Nations climate change summit, COP27, to establish a "loss and damage" fund for countries vulnerable to the devastating impacts … mitigation and adaptation — that have not yet been delivered or implemented. Countries at COP27 failed to agree on a full phaseout of fossil fuels, and only roughly 30 delivered on … damage represented a milestone, the inability to reach a decision on ending fossil fuels made COP27 "a lost opportunity," Comboni Missionary Sr. Paola Moggi, who attended the conference on …
Nov 22, 2022