Webinar on next steps after Laudato Si’ Conference Jul 20, 2018 | News and Updates, UncategorizedFr. Augusto Zampini, Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development Fr. Joshtrom Kureethadam, Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development Chiara Martinelli, CIDSE Adriana Oppromolla, Caritas Internationalis Tomás Insua, Global Catholic Climate Movement...
“On the brink of an unprecedented global catastrophe” from climate change, the effects of which “place a question mark on the very future of human existence” Jul 17, 2018 | BlogThe conference stressed the importance of staying below 1.5 C, set to be surpassed in the next two months, and an emissions turnaround. By Joshua J. McElwee on 5 July 2018 Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, June 25, in Rome (CNS/Paul Haring) VATICAN...
GCCM began working in 2015 on 1.5 C as a key target for the world to achieve. It provides a focus for action, even as the world still emits 1268 metric tons per second Jul 17, 2018 | BlogThe world is still emitting 40 Gt of carbon dioxide.⁴ This equals 1,268 metric tonnes per second. It’s time, past time, to turn this around. How long will it take to reach our ‘budget’ of GHG emissions and hit 1.5 and/or 2 degrees Celsius of global warming?...
Moving beyond “thoughts and prayers” on the climate: it’s past time to get on the 1.5 C path say youth, scientists at Vatican conference Jul 17, 2018 | Blog, Uncategorized“Saving our common home and the future of life on earth,” conference on the third anniversary of Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’ on the protection of our common home. As Msgr. Bruno Marie Duffé, secretary of the Dicastery for Integral Human Development, told us,...
Mercy Sisters describe Living Laudato Si’, three years in Jul 17, 2018 | BlogBy Marianne Comfort, GCCM Steering Committee Member Three years after the release of Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’, two of the document’s challenges still resonate as strongly as they did when I first read them: “the use of highly polluting fossil fuels … needs...
