Reports have traced funding for the blitz against ESG — investment practices based on environmental, social and governance criteria — to the fossil fuel industry as well as right-wing and libertarian groups.
Water is connected to hope, peace and unity, say attendees of the 2023 U.N. conference, which brought together governments, businesses, scientists, environmentalists and civil society groups like sister congregations.
At Gesu Catholic Church, a conversation on proposed changes to national soot pollution allowance standards highlighted the impact of pollution on Detroiters and the moral call for Catholic leaders to address the issue.
The Environmental Protection Agency proposed in March the first federal limits on "forever chemicals" in drinking water, a move the Biden administration said will save thousands of lives and prevent some serious illnesses attributed to exposure to these chemicals over time.
The Biden administration's approval this week of a massive oil drilling project in northern Alaska amounts to "a betrayal" of the president's pledges on climate change and endangers Arctic communities with pollution, said faith-based organizations who joined environmental and Indigenous groups in condemning the decision.
Church movements connected to the environment and the protection of traditional peoples are hopeful that the beginning of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's government may open a new landscape in Brazil.
A new documentary follows four women who seek to raise awareness about climate change through advocacy in government and official institutions. It's a time bomb of a film that is also defiantly infused with hope.
Environmentalists say Nigeria's leading presidential candidates have put climate change on the backburner of the campaign agenda. Instead, the politicians prioritize economic revival in their messages, said campaigners.
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