We thank and congratulate the House of Representatives for passing the Build Back Better Act and call on the Senate to care for the common good and vote in favor of this historic legislation.
Climate change is our ‘fierce urgency of now’ and the Glasgow Climate Pact does not rise to the moment. Just as Dr. King said in 1963, there is such a thing as being too late.
A variation of a Jewish prayer for renewal traditionally recited in the light of the waxing moon.
Now, in 2021, we have reached a decisive moment. We must reach an agreement in Glasgow that sets a clear and ambitious timeline for a just transition away from harmful fossil fuels.
Two recent UN reports offer the most detailed descriptions to date of the technology, investment and policy choices necessary to achieve a sustainable and inclusive energy future.
As half a million people in South Sudan face their third straight year of extreme flooding that the UN says is fueled by climate change, Maryknoll lay missioner Gabe Hurrish writes in his newsletter about the growing hunger and violence in the world’s youngest nation.
The Earth can teach us how to be nonviolent and in right relationship with each other and all of Creation.
Corporations and institutions like TIAA are pledging to achieve carbon neutrality but critics say net zero pledges delay meaningful reductions in greenhouse gases and provide cover to those unwilling to commit.
This is an excerpt from our two-page policy brief on climate change.
Pope Francis gathered religious leaders and scientists at the Vatican to issue an appeal to world leaders for urgent action at the COP26 UN Climate Talks.
Maryknoll missioners took actions to respond to the cry of the Earth leading up to the UN Climate Talks (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, in November, 2021.
In a letter laying out six demands, the groups reject TIAA’s promise to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050 as “greenwashing” and tell TIAA to fully divest from fossil fuels by 2025, and to immediately stop its acquisitions of farmland.
This is an abbreviated version of the issue brief on climate change as part of our series, Faithful Voting and Global Concerns. View the entire brief here and register for a corresponding 30 minute webinar here. The following article was published in the July-August 2020 issue of NewsNotes. See Life on earth is facing a serious threat…
The Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns partnered with actress Jane Fonda for the ninth week of her Fire Drill Fridays campaign in Washington, D.C.
Leaders of Catholic development agencies respond to IPCC report.
President Trump may have left the Paris climate agreement but we, and thousands of others in the U.S., are still in. The following article was published in the July-August 2017 issue of NewsNotes. When President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the Paris climate agreement on June 1, he forfeited U.S. leadership on…
Learn how the new executive order affects U.S. efforts to address climate change and what can you do right now to protect the Earth.
A group of conservative leaders recently shared a plan to decrease carbon emissions that could change the political possibilities for climate action.
