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Global cooperation needed in response to climate change, pope says

November 13, 2017
By Carol Glatz
Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Global problems associated with climate change demand global cooperation, Pope Francis told a group of heads of state from the Pacific Islands.

The planet Earth, when viewed from space, is a world without borders, he said, and “it reminds us of the need for a global outlook, international...

Environmental Destruction and Environmental Ethics in Islam

November 11, 2017
By Dr. Khursheed Ahmad Wani
Kashmir Monitor

Pope denounces 'shortsighted' human activity for climate change

November 11, 2017
By Nicole Winfield, The Associated Press
CTV News

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis on Saturday blasted “shortsighted human activity” for global warming and rising sea levels and urged leaders at climate talks in Germany to take a global outlook as they negotiate ways to curb heat-trapping emissions.

Francis met with a delegation of Pacific leaders and...

COP23, led by island nation Fiji, aims to buoy urgency for climate action

November 10, 2017
By Brian Roewe
National Catholic Reporter

With the annual United Nations climate change conference under way, COP23 has taken the gathering somewhere it hasn’t gone before, well sort of.

The physical host of the latest global climate summit (Nov. 6-17) is Bonn, Germany, where the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change has its headquarters. But...

International Rights of Nature Tribunal in Bonn

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International Rights of Nature Tribunal in Bonn Finds Legal Systems Incapable of Preventing Climate Change and Protecting Nature

November 10, 2017
Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature

Winona LaDuke: 'Time to move on' from exploiting, ignoring nature

November 9, 2017
By Taylor Jade Powell
HUB – Johns Hopkins University

Winona LaDuke communicated her visions for a multicultural democracy and a sustainable economy with wit, anecdotes, facts, and figures on Wednesday night to an overflow crowd at Johns Hopkins University’s Mason Hall auditorium.

Climate change is a threat to rich and poor alike

November 6, 2017
By Achim Steiner, Patricia Espinosa, and Robert Glasser
National Catholic Reporter

Editor’s note: COP23, the annual United Nations climate change negotiations, opened Nov. 6 in Bonn, Germany, with Fiji as the presiding nation. NCR publishes the following op-ed from U.N. officials as part of its coverage of the international climate summit...

Trump's environmental rollbacks lack 'moral compass,' Catholics say

Planet, people take back seat to business since election

By Brian Roewe
National Catholic Reporter
November 7, 2017

After a September visit to Florida to survey damage waged by Hurricane Irma, President Donald Trump was asked whether the storm, along with Hurricane Harvey in the Gulf Coast, had changed his views on climate change.

“We’ve...

From better bulbs to more trees, Italy's Assisi takes on climate change

November 5, 2017
By Alex Whiting
Reuters

ASSISI, Italy (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The small medieval Italian pilgrimage town of Assisi, birthplace of Francis, Catholic patron saint of ecologists, is embarking on a quiet revolution.

Mayor Stefania Proietti, an energy expert, plans to cut carbon emissions 40 percent between now and 2030, and hopes the “city on the...

Our Moral Opportunity on Climate Change

November 3, 2017
By Justin Welby
New York Times

As a global family of churches, the Anglican Communion has stood alongside other faiths in prayerful solidarity and compassion with victims and survivors of the recent extreme weather in many places around the world.

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