LATEST NEWS: From a US$300 billion climate finance deal to global carbon trading, here’s what was – and wasn’t – achieved at the COP29 climate talks
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The petroleum-laden dust has settled on this year’s United Nations climate summit, COP29, held over the past fortnight in Baku, Azerbaijan. Climate scientists, leaders, lobbyists and delegates are heading for home.
The meeting achieved incremental progress. Negotiators agreed on a new climate finance target of at least US$300 billion a year by 2035 (A$460 billion), up from US$100 billion now. These funds would help developing nations shift away from fossil fuels, adapt to the warming climate and respond to loss and damage from climate disasters... Read the complete article here Source: The Conversation Image: AMN COP29_23November_Closing_Plenary |
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Developing nations are least responsible for climate change but cop it worst. Will the COP29 climate talks tackle this injustice?
.A new report from Caritas Oceania, Caritas Australia and Jubilee Australia Research Centre, has revealed the total annual finance needs for Pacific nations facing climate mitigation, adaptation and loss and damage costs could conservatively sit at around USD$1.5bn. Now the bill is coming due. Huge volumes of long-buried carbon are in the atmosphere, warming the planet. Climate disasters are arriving more often and getting worse. But the pain from climate change is not distributed fairly. Developing nations are suffering the worst, despite emitting far fewer greenhouse gases... Read the complete article here Source: The Conversation |
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Holy See To COP29: Indifference is an accomplice to injustice
Addressing COP29 on behalf of Pope Francis and the Holy See, Cardinal Pietro Parolin urges urgent climate action, linking environmental protection to peace, justice, and global solidarity, and warning that indifference enables injustice Representing the Holy See at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, Cardinal Pietro Parolin stressed that “the scientific data available to us do not allow any further delay and make it clear that the preservation of creation is one of the most urgent issues of our time and we have to recognise that it is closely interrelated with the preservation of peace”. Read the complete article here Source & Image: VATICAN NEWS |
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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