| Month |
● Holy Days ● Key Eco-Social Dates ● Ecojesuit Dates |
|
JANUARY |
| 14-17 |
● Preparatory Meeting of the Task Force on Environment and Economic Justice of the International Association of Jesuit Universities – Rome, Italy |
| 26 |
● Ecojesuit Webinar |
| 28-31 |
● JCAP Social Apostolate core group meeting – Melbourne, Australia |
|
FEBRUARY |
| 2 |
● World Wetlands Day |
| 7 |
● JCAP-RwC Webinar |
| 12-16 |
● Certificate Course on National Healing and Reconciliation |
| 14 |
● Ash Wednesday |
| 18 |
● First Sunday of Lent |
| 20 |
● World Day of Social Justice |
| 21-22 |
● 2017-2018 Bannan Memorial Lecture, Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education, Santa Clara University – California, USA |
| 22 |
● Sign Petition – Stop Plan to Expand Offshore Oil Drilling |
| 25 |
● Second Sunday of Lent |
| 28 |
● Ecojesuit Webinar |
|
MARCH |
| 1 |
● Zero Discrimination Day |
| ● |
| 3 |
● Sign Petition – urge Congress to disallow oil drilling in the Arctic |
| 4 |
● Third Sunday of Lent |
| 7 |
● JCAP-RwC Webinar |
| 8 |
● International Women’s Day |
| 11 |
● Fourth Sunday of Lent |
| 14 |
● Sign Petition – Support US Action to Reduce Carbon Pollution |
| 15-16 |
● 5th Annual Climate Change Conference – Loyola University Chicago-Institute of Environmental Sustainability
Ecojesuit Webinar (15 March) |
| 17 |
● Calculate Carbon Footprint |
| 18 |
● Fifth Sunday of Lent |
| 20 |
● International Day of Happiness |
| 21 |
● International Day of Forests
● World Poetry Day
● International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
● Sign Petition – Support Transparency in Extractive Industries |
| 22 |
● World Day for Water |
| 23 |
● World Meteorological Day |
| 24 |
● Earth Hour – lights out 8pm |
| 25 |
● Palm Sunday |
| 25-29 |
● ESSC Forest and Water Management Workshop – Bendum, Bukidnon, Philippines |
|
|
| 29 |
● Holy Thursday |
| 30 |
● Good Friday |
| 31 |
● Holy Saturday |
|
APRIL |
| 1 |
● Easter Sunday |
| ● Application Deadline for Sustainable Business and Management Course |
| 7 |
● World Health Day
● JCAP-RwC Webinar (9 April) |
| 22 |
● GCCM Catholic Fossil-Free Pledge Announcement |
| 22-24 |
● The Saint Louis Climate Summit: An Assessment of Climate Issues, Recent Progress, and Possible Solutions – Saint Louis University – Saint Louis, Missouri, USA |
| 25-27 |
● Meeting of GIAN Network Leaders with Conference Coordinators – General Curia, Rome, Italy |
| 19 |
● Ecojesuit Webinar |
|
MAY |
| 2 |
● World Tuna Day |
| 4 |
Ecojesuit Webinar
JCAP-RwC Webinar |
| 10 |
● World Migratory Bird Day |
| 15 |
● International Day of Families |
| 21 |
● World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development |
| 22 |
● International Day for Biological Diversity |
| 23 |
● World Turtle Day |
|
|
| 29-31 |
● Living Laudato Si’ Workshop – Bendum, Bukidnon, Philippines |
|
JUNE |
| 1-2 |
● Living Laudato Si’ Workshop – Bendum, Bukidnon, Philippines |
| 5 |
● World Environment Day |
|
|
| 8 |
● World Oceans Day |
| 14-30 |
● APS Batch 11 – PoS 213 |
| 17 |
● World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought |
| 20 |
● World Refugee Day |
|
|
| 29 |
● International Day of the Tropics |
|
JULY |
| 1 |
● APS Batch 11 – PoS 213 |
| 5-6 |
International Conference on the 3rd Anniversary of Laudato Si’ : Saving Our Common Home and the Future of Life on Earth – Vatican City |
| 8-12 |
● Deusto Assembly 2018: International Association of Jesuit Universities – Bilbao, Spain |
| 11 |
● World Population Day |
| 15 |
● World Youth Skills Day |
| 22-25 |
● Just Sustainability Conference – Center for Environmental Justice and Sustainability, Seattle University |
|
|
| 30 |
● International Day of Friendship |
|
AUGUST |
| 3-5 |
Ecojesuit 2018 Annual Meeting |
| 9 |
● International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples |
| 12 |
● International Youth Day |
| 13-17 |
● JCAP Annual Social Apostolate Meeting – Chiang Mai, Thailand |
| 19 |
● World Humanitarian Day |
|
|
| 29 |
● International Day Against Nuclear Tests |
| 30 |
● Season of Creation – Care for our Common Home (Week 1) |
|
SEPTEMBER |
| 5 |
● International Day of Charity |
| 6 |
● Season of Creation – Care for our Common Home (Week 2) |
|
|
| 12-14 |
● Global Climate Action Summit – San Francisco, California, USA |
| 13 |
● Season of Creation – Care for our Common Home (Week 3) |
| 15 |
● International Coastal Cleanup Day |
| 16 |
● International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer |
| 20 |
● Season of Creation – Care for our Common Home (Week 4) |
| 21 |
● Zero Emissions Day |
| 21 |
● International Day of Peace |
| 23 |
● World Rivers Day |
| 24-30 |
● Climate Week NYC |
| 26 |
● Climate Change, the Courts, and the Paris Agreement – Columbia University, New York City
One Planet Summit – New York City, USA |
| 26 |
● International Day for the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons |
| 27 |
● World Tourism Day |
| 27-28 |
● 4th Hearing of the National Inquiry on Climate Change – New York City Bar Association, New York City |
|
|
|
OCTOBER |
| 1 |
● World Habitat Day |
| 2 |
● International Day of Non-Violence |
| 4 |
● Feast of St Francis of Assisi Patron Saint of Ecology
● World Animal Day |
| 8 |
IPCC’s 30th birthday and release of the Special Report Global Warming of 1.5℃ |
| 13 |
● International Day for Disaster Reduction |
| 16 |
● World Food Day |
| 17 |
● International Day for the Eradication of Poverty |
| 19 |
● Ecojesuit Webinar |
| 31 |
● World Cities Day |
|
NOVEMBER |
| 1-7 |
● Parliament of the World’s Religions – Toronto, Canada |
| 5 |
● World Tsunami Awareness Day |
| 6 |
● International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict |
| 6-8 |
5th Hearing of the National Inquiry on Climate Change – London School of Economics |
| 10 |
● World Science Day for Peace and Development |
| 19 |
● World Toilet Day |
| 20 |
● Universal Children’s Day |
| 25 |
● International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women |
| 28 |
● Ecojesuit Webinar (to be confirmed) |
|
DECEMBER |
| 2 |
● International Day for the Abolition of Slavery |
| 3 |
● International Day of Persons with Disabilities |
| 3-14 |
● COP24 – Katowice, Slaskie, Poland |
|
|
| 5 |
● International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development |
| ● World Soil Day |
| 9 |
● International Anti-Corruption Day |
| 10 |
● Human Rights Day |
| 11 |
● International Mountain Day |
| 18 |
● International Migrants Day |
| 20 |
● International Human Solidarity Day |
| 28 |
● Ecojesuit Webinar (to be confirmed) |
