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Ahead of COP27, faith leaders back global treaty to end the use of fossil fuels
… Francis' Season of Creation message that addressed leaders at COP27 and the COP15 summit on biodiversity. Among the religious groups that signed the treaty-endorsing letter were two dozen …
'We cannot exist if we lose the water': In Honduras, a community resists a mine polluting the Río Guapinol
… that contaminated water would have on human beings to the river's surrounding forests and biodiversity. "We cannot exist if we lose the water, the river [because] the cost of living would …
Laudato Si' documentary puts a human face on climate change, director says
… the pope to discuss Laudato Si' and the growing global threats of climate change and rapid biodiversity loss. They include Arouna Kandé, a climate refugee in Senegal; Cacique Dadá, an … science issue. But then to suddenly realize that at heart, protecting climate change and biodiversity loss, because of the components involved, it's a moral issue as much as a … who they are as people so that we can start to think of the climate change problem and the biodiversity problem less in terms of statistics and more in terms of human beings. And so that …
Links: Runoff vote in Brazil; rewilding a river; Waffle House and Hurricane Ian
… all of which at that time made the river more technologically efficient, but robbed it of the biodiversity a river should generate. In The New York Times , Washington correspondent Charlie …
Vatican official: Dialogue, sustainability should be at forefront of tourism
… and in every country," he said. Czerny also said tourism must be restructured to protect biodiversity. He said it needs a "perspective of integral ecology" that fosters dialogue between … of tourism, in fact, is measured not only in terms of pollution, but also in the impact on the biodiversity of natural and social ecosystems," he said. "There is a need for a sensibility that …
Africa Climate Week hears calls for united African voice ahead of COP27
… emissions, Africa faces a disproportionate level of devastating climate impacts, among them biodiversity loss, water shortages, reduced food production, and loss of lives and livelihoods, …
Amazon Catholic leaders: Isolated Indigenous peoples must be protected
… of years disappears. That's a wake-up call to humanity that the process of extinction of biodiversity is followed by the process of extinction of human beings," José Gregorio Diaz … pressures. In Ecuador, the Tagaeri and Taromenane, two isolated peoples living in the highly biodiverse Yasuni National Park, are increasingly threatened by activities related to oil …
Threatening all creation, nuclear weapons are a climate justice issue, too
… summits may unite the human family in decisively addressing the twin crises of climate and biodiversity loss." In addition to the pope's suggestions, as I reflect on what to focus my …
Laudato Si' message gets added attention as Season of Creation opens
… the cry of the earth," Orzechowski said. "The issue of climate justice and the issue of the biodiversity crisis are among the most urgent and significant moral issues facing us as a church …
With floods and fires raging, Season of Creation invites Christians to listen to nature's cries
… it was only natural for the Missionary Society of St. Columban to relaunch its podcast on biodiversity loss. The six-episode season follows the 2019 debut of the "Jubilee for the Earth: Biodiversity and Our Sacred Story" podcast , and looks at the threats facing ecosystems and …
People must choose: Help grow garden of life or desert of death, pope says
… he said. He asked people to pray that the upcoming U.N. gatherings on climate and biodiversity "unite the human family in decisively addressing the twin crises of climate and biodiversity loss." The pope referred specifically to the upcoming U.N. Climate Change Conference …