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Laudato Si Dialogue: Critical Opportunities in 2021 to create change: call for an integral path.
… in 2021 to create change, with a focus on the UN climate conference (COP 26) and the UN biodiversity conference (COP 15) and the need for an integral approach. We will hear from the …
Catholic action on environment set for massive multiplication this Laudato Si' Week
… 2015, Francis has brought the church's moral voice to international talks on climate change, biodiversity loss, deforestation and increasing threats to Indigenous communities and others who … numerous development officials and climate activists and artistic presentations highlighting biodiversity threats. The pope may also comment on Laudato Si' Week during his Angelus messages …
Indigenous people's lives depend on their lands, but threats are growing worldwide
… negotiated in 1997. People worry that the projects will affect forests, water supplies, biodiversity and sacred sites. Women will suffer most, because of loss of access to water and to … negotiated in 1997. People worry that the projects will affect forests, water supplies, biodiversity and sacred sites. Women will suffer most, because of loss of access to water and to …
EarthBeat Weekly: Most of the world's people are caught in an 'ecological poverty trap'
… we're drawing down future reserves, which has led to a series of interrelated problems — biodiversity loss, climate change, reduced freshwater sources and overfishing among them — that … One is that delaying a shift from dependence on fossil fuels exacerbates climate change and biodiversity loss, but the policies needed to eliminate fossil fuel use could be too costly for …
Food & Faith Dialogue Series: Regenerating the Earth
… for crops and pasture lands. This dialogue will examine the intersection of food production, biodiversity, and ecosystem health. …
EarthBeat Weekly: Continuing challenge for people of faith: turning climate concern into action
… Associated Press. And a controversial highway project in the Amazon would cut across a highly biodiverse protected area and at least 10 Indigenous communities and open up a route for drug …
Webinar explores worldview 'collision' when missionaries go to the Amazon
… Nations , Indigenous peoples worldwide live in areas that are home to 80% of the world's biodiversity. "What do our forest communities know that they can teach us today that could change …
Bishop McElroy: US and Vatican can work together on vaccine distribution
… Amazon," McElroy recalled. He noted that the effects of climate change on the Amazon and its biodiversity is of "monumental importance for the whole global future," and that one …
Can faith leaders shift public opinion toward climate action?
… respondents, more than half of whom were under age 35, considered climate change and loss of biodiversity the greatest challenge facing humanity . But while 95% felt that cooperation among …
EarthBeat Weekly: Earth Day treaty seeks to protect environmental defenders in Latin America
… paired famed primatologist Jane Goodall with Cardinal Peter Turkson for a conversation about biodiversity and its importance in preserving life on Earth, not just for people but for the …
Pope Francis, in Earth Day messages, warns 'we are at the edge' on climate change
… that nature deserves to be protected … with the utmost care and respect" for the planet's biodiversity. Once the destruction of nature is triggered, he added, it becomes difficult to …