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U.S. Bishops Action Alert on the Paris Agreement

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has put out an “action alert” that is asking for all Catholics in the United States to contact their government leaders to try and reverse the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement. The alert from the bishops says: In Laudato Si’, Pope Francis wrote that “a global consensusContinue reading “U.S. Bishops Action Alert on the Paris Agreement”

Measuring progress

Laudato Si was released in May 2015. Since that time, progress on reducing our global climate footprint and our trajectory towards an irreversible climate catastrophe has been mixed at best. Shortly after Laudato Si’s release, the Paris Agreement committed most of the world’s countries to real progress on climate action. In 2017, New Zealand committedContinue reading “Measuring progress”