Paris Agreement

Ahead of Stockholm+50, religious leaders have called for humanity to reverse course from economic practices that abuse nature and heat the planet to dangerous levels, saying the faith voice has a pivotal role to play.

Catholic development groups operating across the world said the latest report from Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change made clear that countries must focus on "transformative solutions" with no time to waste.

Commentary: Fossil fuels have become a weapon of mass destruction, both for war in Ukraine and in the climate crisis. We must believe that we can overcome not only war in Ukraine, but also our dependency on oil, gas and coal.

A new United Nations report reaffirmed Catholic development concerns about climate change. It also reinforced the need for fast and transformational measures to reverse course and limit suffering.

A new campaign attempts to leverage the moral and financial power of people of faith to convince financial service providers that climate-solutions investing is not only an expectation of their clientele, but a demand.

The U.N. climate summit COP26 took some steps forward in the global effort to rapidly limit dangerous levels of warming, but not nearly enough or fast enough, say Catholic groups who were present in Glasgow throughout the two-week conference.

Billions of dollars and a bevy of new commitments from countries to move away from fossil fuels are promising developments that will depend on the details, say Catholics at the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow.

Catholic development agencies, religious congregations and the Vatican say the climate change summit known as COP26 is crucial to the international effort to limit the planet's rising temperatures. The conference in Glasgow, Scotland will urge nearly 200 countries to commit to substantial, short-term reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.