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Vatican's major sustainability campaign the main focus of Laudato Si' Week 2022
… the encyclical's calls toward integral ecology and responding to the poor. A conversation on biodiversity, in advance of the United Nations COP15 Convention on Biodiversity later this year, will include Salesian Sr. Alessandra Smerilli, secretary of the …
9 million people die annually from 'overlooked' threat of pollution, says new health study
… deaths per 100,000 people. The report draws clear lines between pollution, climate change and biodiversity loss, calling them "the key global environmental issues of our time" whose solutions … passed in 1970. It also suggests countries integrate pollution control into plans to address biodiversity loss and climate change, suggesting that a rapid transition to wind and solar energy … too. "Pollution control is highly cost-effective and, because pollution, climate change, and biodiversity loss are closely linked, actions taken to control pollution have a high potential to …
Beatrice Ekoko
… 15 years, including energy conservation, renewable energy, active transportation and local biodiversity protection and enhancement efforts that have led to the initiation of a biodiversity action plan for her city. …
Returning motherhood to its original state as image bearers of an untamed God
… resource management. To rewild a piece of land is to allow it to return to its original state: biodiverse and flourishing as nature intended. Rewilded land will look unkempt to the outside …
Cardinal Czerny: Sustainable development must put solidarity and human rights first
… reach within 15 years. Among them: eliminating poverty, promoting gender equality, reversing biodiversity loss and limiting climate change. But the world has made limited progress on those …
At Earth Day checkpoint, Vatican's bold Laudato Si' initiative plants seeds of sustainability in the church
… momentum to deliver a Catholic contribution to efforts to combat climate change, reverse biodiversity loss and take on other environmental challenges facing the planet. The ambitious …
Catholic groups call for rapid climate action as UN report warns window is closing fast
… threatens the health and livelihoods of people around the globe, ecosystem health and biodiversity." The report reinforced that the release of emissions is uneven. Developed countries …
Fossil fuels were always dangerous. Now they're fueling war on my doorstep.
… the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. It will address most of our crises — climate crisis, biodiversity loss, ecological crisis in general and a question of peace," Fr. Joshtrom Isaac …
Boosting action for nature requires spiritual change, say faith groups at UN environment assembly
… in Nairobi. They also said overconsumption was the key driver of climate change, pollution, biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation. In a final statement in early March, the Faith for … experts warn that the world is facing a triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, and waste and pollution. One of the biggest challenges is plastic pollution. …
New UN report 'rings the latest alarm bell' about climate change effects on nature and people
… what the world can no longer deny — the incalculable loss of life, culture, livelihoods and biodiversity from the climate crisis." "How many crystal-clear red alerts on the climate crisis … report shows that addressing climate change must go hand in hand with efforts to safeguard biodiversity. The coalition of nearly 800 Catholic organizations encouraged Catholics to sign … the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow and which will also be shared at the upcoming COP15 U.N. biodiversity conference scheduled for the spring in Kunming, China. The IPCC report noted that …
Laudato Si' Movement wants East African oil pipeline stopped
… of more than 800 miles of pipeline, poses a severe threat to environmental conservation, biodiversity protection, and climate change mitigation in East Africa. The International Union of … East African Crude Oil Pipeline. It urged the union to engage Uganda and Tanzania to promote a biodiversity protection policy with an ad hoc working group to follow through on the policies. It … governments of Uganda and Tanzania. "IUCN ... recognizes that the impact is not only linked to biodiversity and climate change but also affects economic development," said Oberle. "IUCN …