Jaime Tatay, SJ There is growing interest in the role of faith-based organizations (FBOs) in moving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) forward, catalyzing collaboration, building cultural bridges, and activating their extensive institutional networks. During the 2017 Stockholm World Water Week, three different events dealing with the faith-water nexus were held for the first time in...
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Staff of Ignatian Solidarity Network Presidents of US Jesuit universities signed on to We Are Still In, an open letter to the international community and parties to the Paris Agreement from 1,200 mayors, governors, college and university leaders, businesses, and investors in the US who are joining forces for the first time and declaring...
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Emilio Travieso, SJ We need to reinvent our food systems. The dominant model of industrialised agriculture and globalised capitalist markets has failed to solve the problem of hunger, despite producing more than enough food for the needs of the world’s population. Meanwhile, it is harming the environment, creating inequality, and contributing to health problems....
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The sustainability of a sharing economy and a collaborative society is the focus of the 23rd Annual World Forum of the International Association of Jesuit Business Schools (IAJBS), to be hosted by the Faculty of Economics, Social Sciences and Business Administration of the University of Namur in Belgium from 16 to 19 July 2017...
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Wishing to contribute to building a strong narrative for deep individual and collective changes, CIDSE (an international global alliance of 17 Catholic development agencies working together for global justice) recently launched its first international photo competition on what people and communities are doing to consume and produce food and energy in a sustainable way. Apart...
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Inspired by Laudato si’ in caring for our common home, Casa Velha launched Walk for Change and for ecological conversion in January while preparing for the visit of Pope Francis to Fatima, Portugal on 12 and 13 May 2017. Walk for Change is part of the Juntos pela Mudança project or joint action for sustainable lifestyles,...
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Ecojesuit shares the November 2016 declaration of the Federation of Catholic Bishops’ Conferences of Oceania as they seek to connect the islands and communities of Oceania to the climate change discussions globally, especially the implementation of the Paris Climate Agreement and the forthcoming Group of Twenty (G20) meeting in Hamburg, Germany in July 2017....
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Members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe gathered the support of dozens of other tribes in North Dakota, USA, in recent months to protest the 1,172-mile (1,890 km) Dakota Access Pipeline, proposed in 2014 but expected to be completed this year. The pipeline, with a planned investment of US$ 3.8 billion and to be...
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Father Arturo Sosa, elected last 14 October as the 31st superior general of the Society of Jesus during the 36th General Congregation, is calling for a “reconciliation in the world” that means “we have to strive for reconciliation between human beings, reconciliation with God and reconciliation with the created world.” Jesuit responses to a...
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Paula Sendín Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) gave their consent to the ratification of the Paris Agreement on 4 October 2016, a significant move to enter into force the first global pact against global warming. A few days before, on 30 September, the EU environment ministers agreed to ratify the Agreement through a...
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