LATEST NEWS: Australia's 'immoral' coalmine decision akin to drowning Pacific neighbours, Tuvalu climate minister declares
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Tuvalu’s climate minister says Australia’s decision to approve three coalmine expansions calls into question the country’s claim to be a “member of the Pacific family” and undermines the Australian case to co-host the 2026 UN climate summit with island nations.
Dr Maina Talia said last week’s mine approvals, which analysts say could generate more than 1.3bn tonnes of carbon dioxide across their lifetime once the coal is shipped and burned overseas, was “a direct threat to our collective future”. Read the complete article here Source: The Guardian |
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Enough, already: why humanity must get on board with the concept of 'sufficiency'
Humanity’s rapacious consumption is more than Earth and its climate can handle, which is driving an ecological crisis. Australians are the worst offenders per person due to our excessive resource use. At the same time, people in some parts of the world lack the material goods to meet their basic needs, while many people in wealthier societies have more than enough to live comfortably. That’s where the concept of “sufficiency” can help. It’s a policy approach gaining momentum around the world. It aims to avoid demand for energy, materials, land and water, and ensure wellbeing for all humans, while staying within planetary boundaries. Read the complete article here Source: The Conversation |
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Summit of the Future
20-21 September - Action Days, 22-23 September - Summit The Summit is a high-level event, bringing world leaders together to forge a new international consensus on how we deliver a better present and safeguard the future. The Summit will produce an inter-governmentally negotiated, action-oriented Pact for the Future with chapters on
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The call to respond to the vision of the Gospel as articulated by Pope Francis in Laudato Si' and
his new document, Laudate Deum, is the call to all people of good will in our time.
This website gathers and provides easy access to key documents, significant event information and up to date resources about the challenges of integral ecology in the face of the reality of climate change.
How are we to respond to the cry of endangered Earth and the cry of the most fragile Peoples across our world?
How is a new ecological theology to be expressed as the basis for new practical action for change?
his new document, Laudate Deum, is the call to all people of good will in our time.
This website gathers and provides easy access to key documents, significant event information and up to date resources about the challenges of integral ecology in the face of the reality of climate change.
How are we to respond to the cry of endangered Earth and the cry of the most fragile Peoples across our world?
How is a new ecological theology to be expressed as the basis for new practical action for change?
...a true ecological approach always becomes a social approach; it must integrate questions of justice in debates on the environment, so as to hear both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor.”
Pope Francis, Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home, N.49.
Indigenous Leadership
Reflect on Indigenous Spirituality and Care for our Common Home in this video on
Ecological Conscience produced by Mercy EcoCommunications for the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development (DPIHD) in their project: 'Doing Theology from the Existential Peripheries.'
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Adele Howard rsm presenting at 'Doing Theology from the Existential Peripheries' Conference,
reflecting with Indigenous Voices from Oceania on Climate Change and Integral Ecology.
Pontifical Urban University Rome, 12 October 2022
reflecting with Indigenous Voices from Oceania on Climate Change and Integral Ecology.
Pontifical Urban University Rome, 12 October 2022
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