Brian Roewe

A foreboding future but the potential for a better one if immediate action is taken, with a key role for faith communities. Those were among the religious responses to Monday's major climate change report.

Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency, told a Catholic gathering that continued investment in fossil fuels will lead to financial losses as countries move to adopt clean energy.

The Global Catholic Climate Movement, consisting of more than 800 Catholic organizations and thousands of individual members, has changed its name to the Laudato Si' Movement to better represent how the encyclical has animated much of their work since its inception.

For three days in online spaces, thousands of Catholics looked to prime the U.S. church for a stronger response to climate change and Pope Francis' call to become a central component in the global response to the world's ecological challenges.

Speakers urged a bolder embrace of Laudato Si' in the U.S. at the start of a conference seeking to bolster the response of the nation's Catholics to climate change and the pope's landmark ecological encyclical.

Solar geoengineering refers to cooling the planet by reflecting the sun's rays back into space. Advocates say research into such technology is imperative. Opponents argue it poses unnecessary risks and diverts attention from addressing root causes of climate change.

If it's summer, it probably means gas prices are on the rise along with the temperatures. And how consumers respond can have consequences for government action on climate change.

The "Laudato Si' and the U.S. Catholic Church" conference, being held virtually July 13-15, aims to raise ambition and action within the U.S. church in responding to Pope Francis' encyclical on the environment.

The NCR Publishing Company has separated its multimillion-dollar investment portfolio from financial holdings in the fossil fuel sector. New board guidelines also encourage investments in renewable energy.

In the face of global environmental threats, Jesuit colleges must provide education aimed at creating a more sustainable world, Nancy Tuchman of Loyola Chicago's School of Environmental Sustainability told a recent conference.

The June 15 virtual gathering marked the 25th anniversary of a program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science that has sought to foster engagement among scientists and people of faith.

Bishops urge leaders to support a sustainable recovery from the pandemic, ensure fair access to vaccines and move quickly to halt biodiversity loss and meet Paris Agreement goals.

The "100 Leaders for 100% Clean Energy" event was the start of an escalated push by environmental groups to press Congress to support Biden's ambitious infrastructure plan and a clean electricity standard.

Japanese automaker Nissan presented the Vatican with its all-electric Leaf sedan at a ceremony on June 5, World Environment Day. The gift aimed to help the Vatican in its goal to gradually replace its fleet of service vehicles with electric alternatives.

Hundreds of people and Catholic organizations are part of a broad, worldwide consultation with the Vatican to offer feedback and fine-tune the Laudato Si' Action Platform before its full launch in October.

'The current environmental situation calls us to act with urgency,' Pope Francis says at the start of the U.N. Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.

Catholic and other shareholder activists see one of Big Oil's worst days as a big victory and sign of a potential sea change in their decadeslong push for fossil fuel companies to address their central contribution to climate change.

The Vatican's long-awaited program for putting Pope Francis' ecological encyclical into action throughout the church debuted May 25, with the pope inviting all Catholics on a journey "to create the future we want."

A newly launched network hopes to channel prayer to heal the planet in the face of rising global temperatures and declining biodiversity, and inspire people of faith to work to reverse both problems.

An official in the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development urged Catholic institutions around the world to divest from fossil fuels, calling it a moral and theological imperative.