Brian Roewe

A true system of global sustainable development hinges on recognizing others as siblings in a shared world whose dignity and rights must take precedence over corporate interests, said Cardinal Michael Czerny.

Five months after enrollment opened, the Laudato Si' Action Platform and its organizers remain focused on building bottom-up momentum to deliver a Catholic contribution to efforts to combat climate change.

The 2022 legislative session of Maryland's General Assembly adjourned Monday at midnight, with environmental advocates celebrating a major victory in the form of the Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022.

Catholic development groups operating across the world said the latest report from Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change made clear that countries must focus on "transformative solutions" with no time to waste.

Marquette announced an update March 24 to its university investment policy that bars investments in public securities whose primary business involves the exploration and extraction of coal, oil and gas.

Sharon Lavigne, a Catholic crusader of environmental justice for her St. James community in Louisiana's notorious "Cancer Alley," will receive this year's prestigious Laetare Medal from the University of Notre Dame.

Loyola University Chicago's conference on climate featured discussions that all touched on ways increasing global temperatures impact people's ability to live healthy lives, but often in disproportionate ways.

Concerns remain about how to conduct communal consumption of the Precious Blood amid a highly contagious virus, and cultivators of sacramental wine worry about what those decisions will mean for future business.

New solar array at Catholic University of America supports the Vatican's Laudato Si' Action Platform. It also supports the goal of Washington, D.C., to increase use of renewables and to achieve carbon neutrality.

As climate threats have risen, Bangladesh has also become a global leader in climate resilience, including working with organizations like Catholic Relief Services to help communities better withstand stronger storms.

A new United Nations report reaffirmed Catholic development concerns about climate change. It also reinforced the need for fast and transformational measures to reverse course and limit suffering.

"U.S. Catholic leaders' failure to share and enact the church's own climate teachings is disillusioning young people," a college student tells Pope Francis.

A new campaign attempts to leverage the moral and financial power of people of faith to convince financial service providers that climate-solutions investing is not only an expectation of their clientele, but a demand.

Mindfulness can help people connect to a sense of joy and gratitude for creation, and reclaim a sense of the sacred essential to see how humans are damaging the planet, and then to become motivated to address it.

Eighty-six faith leaders have called on President Joe Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to not abandon Democrats' Build Back Better agenda and its hundreds of billions of dollars to combat climate change

Three large initiatives landed on the doorsteps of U.S. Catholic dioceses, parishes, congregations and organizations last fall. A recent Catholic Climate Covenant webinar explored the opportunities for collaboration.

In a sweeping pastoral, the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines also called for church institutions to press their banks to phase out fossil fuel holdings and to deny donations with ties to the fossil fuel and extractive industries.

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The Southeast Faith Leaders Network kicked off a "climate revival" Jan. 20, targeting four states that organizers say are on the front lines of the impacts of climate change as well as efforts to suppress voting access.

With a landmark ruling, one of Colombia's top courts granted legal rights to the Atrato River. Now, a network of communities along the vital waterway is working to ensure its protection.