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Environmental Injustice and Economic Issues: WCC's Working Group on Climate Change

May 13, 2014
By Grace Ji-Sun Kim  
Huffington Post

Why China will solve the world's environmental problems

May 12, 2014
By James Miller  
Sustainable China

Quick! Picture China’s biggest environmental problem.

Pope to UN: Resist the economy of exclusion, serve the poor

May 9, 2014
Vatican Radio

Pope Francis wants to save the planet

May 9, 2014
By Michael Trimmer
Christian Today

Pope Francis is reported to be wanting to galvanise Catholic Church’s response to climate change.

Christiana Figueres, head of the UN’s climate change secretariat, told an audience at St Paul’s Cathedral that a new encyclical on the environment was forthcoming.

Desmond Tutu: Opposition to pipelines is a moral choice

May 9, 2014
By Desmond Tutu
Ottawa Citizen

As I travel the globe – witnessing first-hand the vulnerability of communities most affected by climate change, from South Africa to Canada – the urgency of our responsibility to take action has never been clearer. Every single day hundreds of millions of lives and livelihoods are affected by global warming, a trend that will...

UN to back Pope Francis statement on 'human ecology'

May 8, 2014
By Sophie Yeo
Responding to Climate Change (RTCC)

The UN will back a letter from the Pope on man’s relationship with the environment, its climate chief Christiana Figueres said on Wednesday.

Interfaith leaders launch Blessed Tomorrow to catalyze people of faith on climate change

The new national coalition will empower congregations with concrete steps to address climate change in their communities

PR Newswire
May 7, 2014

LONGWOOD, Fla. – Today marks the launch of Blessed Tomorrow, a new national interfaith coalition of religious leaders committed to inspiring and engaging people of faith to...

Faith leaders need to find their voice on climate change

May 7, 2014
By Christiana Figueres
The Guardian

Religious institutions need to find their voice and set their moral compass on one of the great humanitarian issues of our time

Saving the Earth and its peoples from dangerous climate change is an economic, social and environmental issue – and a moral and ethical one too that goes to the core of many if not all of the...

Can a Pope Help Sustain Humanity and Ecology?

May 6, 2014
By Andrew C. Revkin
Dot Earth

Towards an Inclusive "Green Economy": Rethinking Ethics and Economy in the Age of the Anthropocene

Remarks by Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary General and UNEP Executive Director at the 2014 Joint Workshop of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences

United Nations Environment Programme
May 6, 2014

Rome - Sometimes, to look afresh at the problems of today, we need to take a wider view. Not just decades, or...

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