This webinar will explore how the coronavirus crisis and the environmental crisis are related in Europe, and how regional approaches to a just transition to integral ecology could be developed.
It will contribute to inform, connect and mobilise people of goodwill, GCCM members, allies and Laudato Si' Animators in Europe in relation to a just transition in Europe, and Europe's responsibilities for a just transition globally.
In the occasion of Season of Creation, as a favourable time for prayer and act, it will contribute to create an understanding of engagement in public affairs/policy as a form of testimony our faith rooted in prayer.
Speakers will include:
-Sr. Alessandra Smerilli, economist and coordinator of the Vatican’s Commission for Covid-19’s Economics Task Force, member of the Scientific Committee and organizer of the Catholic Italian Social Weeks
-Marcin Kędzierski, Jagiellonian Club in Poland
-Lydia Lehlogonolo Machaka, CIDSE Climate Justice & Energy officer
-Cliona Sharkey, GCCM Director of Advocacy and European Programmes
This webinar will be held in English and simultaneously interpreted to Spanish, Italian, Polish, Portuguese and French.
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