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December 16, 2015
By Phyllis Zagano
National Catholic Reporter

December 16, 2015
Vatican Radio

World leaders have hailed the climate change agreement they struck in Paris at the weekend as historic, while some environmentalists have warned the deal does not go far enough to curb the effects of global warming on our planet. Financial analysts meanwhile have described the summit’s outcome as the most important climate agreement since the 1997...

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December 12, 2015
By Coral Davenport
New York Times

LE BOURGET, France — With the sudden bang of a gavel Saturday night, representatives of 195 nations reached a landmark accord that will, for the first time, commit nearly every country to lowering planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions to help stave off the most drastic effects of...

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Islamic Foundation for Ecology and Environmental Sciences (IFEES)/EcoIslam

December 8, 2015

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December 6, 2015
By Seth Borenstein, Associated Press
The Daily Mail

PARIS (AP) — The cold hard numbers of science haven’t spurred the world to curb runaway global warming. So as climate negotiators struggle in Paris, some scientists who appealed to the rational brain are enlisting what many would consider a higher power: the majesty of faith.

It’s not God versus...

December 2, 2015
By Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Huffington Post

In a city whose soul is bleeding from the acts of terrorists, world leaders are meeting to discuss the fate of an Earth whose soul is also bleeding–bleeding from exploitation, from our civilization’s relentless pursuit of materialism. These leaders will discuss carbon emissions and the global rise of temperature, but I...