KATOWICE (CNS): “The Church is exerting pressure and showing really significant commitment. We must hope countries match this,” said Rebecca Elliott, communications director of Global Catholic Climate Movement, a coalition of more than 650 Catholic organisations, as Catholic representatives worked to keep negotiations on track for a comprehensive deal to address global warming as the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations (UN) Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP24) entered its second and final week in Katowice, Poland.
 

MANILA (SE): Father John Leydon, the co-convener of the Global Catholic Climate Movement and its local representative in The Philippines, made an appeal to Church organisations to divest themselves of their investments in the mining and fossil fuel industry.

“These divestments are an important step toward fulfilling the promise and the call of Laudato Si’ (Praise Be: On care for our common home),” Father Leydon said.

BOSTON (SE): The Global Catholic Climate Movement sent a letter to Pope Francis at the beginning of Lent suggesting that a Synod on Creation would be a constructive move in inviting all people to an ecological conversion.

The movement, which points out that it represents around one million voices from all around the world, thanks the pope for his pastoral concern for all of God’s creation and especially for his leadership in promoting an understanding of it among people.