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Pope calls for united efforts in care for creation during Laudato Si' Week
… can be found on LaudatoSiWeek.org . Topics to be explored include: how Catholics can fight biodiversity collapse; the role of fossil fuels in conflicts and the climate crisis; and how …
Volunteers remove trees to restore San Antonio's only nature sanctuary
… down live trees may seem counterintuitive to restoration, but it helps protect an area's biodiversity. Removing alien species ensures an ecosystem can function properly and safeguards …
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. …