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EU Catholic leaders urge tougher policies to protect Arctic
… intensifying competition over the region's resources and urged tougher policies to protect its biodiversity and Indigenous communities. As exploration, mining, investment and military … by the 1982 U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea and 1992 conventions on climate change and biodiversity. Activities are coordinated via an Arctic Council that includes the United States, …
Nov 18, 2020
Climate summit postponed, but action should ramp up, say advocates
… Deal , which focuses on creating a clean, circular economy, reducing pollution and restoring biodiversity, as well as providing financial and technical assistance to other countries. In the …
Nov 13, 2020
Global climate action at stake in US election, faith activists say
… forests has a cascade effect, not only releasing greenhouse gases, but also reducing the biodiversity that keeps ecosystems healthy, said Thomas Lovejoy, a biology professor at George Mason University in Virginia who has spent his life studying tropical ecosystems. "The biodiversity crisis and the climate crisis actually are all part of one big Gordian knot of …
Nov 3, 2020
Franciscan university honors patriarch for theological work on ecology
… decade, the world has seen alarming environmental degradation with climate change. The loss of biodiversity and the polluting of natural resources together with a growing gap between rich and …
Oct 21, 2020
Uganda's quest for sustainable energy poses fresh environmental threats
… pipeline, which will cross vast marshland and rivers, poses unacceptable risks to water and biodiversity. The pipeline, which is expected to carry some 200,000 barrels a day of crude oil to … Authority. The loss of these fragile ecosystems not only has serious implications on Uganda's biodiversity, but also compromises the ability of the country to cope with the climate change. … overlaps several wildlife habitats including 510 km of African elephant habitat, important biodiversity and natural habitats, water resources and marine coastal ecosystems. The pipeline …
Oct 20, 2020
Unexpected climate question in debate spurs unsurprising responses
… according to his plan, which also includes proposals for infrastructure, transportation and biodiversity conservation. Biden has also pledged to work with states that have been continuing …
Sep 30, 2020
EarthBeat Weekly: Pope Francis' ecological conversion on the way to Laudato Si'
… Aparecida was strong enough that the conference's final document included a short section on "Biodiversity, ecology, the Amazon and the Antarctic." "Traditional communities have been practically excluded from decisions on the wealth of biodiversity and nature," the bishops wrote. "Nature has been, and continues to be, assaulted. …
Sep 11, 2020
New book recounts pope's vision for integral ecology
… day, issues that cannot be ignored and that must be at the center of attention: environment, biodiversity, inculturation, social relationships, migration, fairness and equality." Petrini, …
Sep 9, 2020
EarthBeat Weekly: Justice means safe water for all
… this month, to help provide safe water to those who need it? … "The disintegration of biodiversity, spiraling climate disasters and unjust impact of the current pandemic on the poor …
Sep 4, 2020
Solidarity is the antidote to selfishness, exploitation, pope says
… but we destroy communities," he said. "We want to be lords of the earth, but we ruin biodiversity and the ecological balance." For Christians, he said, the source of true solidarity …
Sep 2, 2020
Pope: Jubilee for the Earth a time for restoring bond with God, creation
… place" as members and not masters of "this interconnected web of life." "The disintegration of biodiversity, spiraling climate disasters and unjust impact of the current pandemic on the poor …
Sep 1, 2020