Ecology and Jesuits in Communication

Editorials

Breathtaking Figures: New Studies on Status and Economics of Earth’s Biodiversity

11 November 201013 March 2014

The general trends of the worldwide ecosystem degradation are commonly well-known for long. Among the most recent studies however, two documentations released on the occasion of the UN’s International Year of Biodiversity 2010 deliver new and mostly alarming figures on the real extent of the world’s biodiversity losses. And for the first time ever, the economic and monetary values of Earth’s biological infrastructure and the manifold services it delivers for human welfare are taken into account within a comprehensive approach.

Reflections

Higher Education Institutions in Spain and Sustainability

11 November 201029 October 2012

On October 15th a meeting was held at the Pontifical University of Comillas-Madrid by several members of UNIJES (Spanish Jesuit Institutions of Higher Education) under the theme of “Natural Resources and Sustainability”. This was a preliminary meeting in order to assess the possibilities to establish a permanent working group in the framework of UNIJES. After a certain time of informal conversations finally we moved forward in order to gather representatives from UNIJES institutions that are dealing with “sustainability” at different levels.

News and Events

New center in Korea Province includes ecological concerns

11 November 201023 November 2010

The Jesuit Research Center for Advocacy and Solidarity is a newly founded institution by the Korea Province of the Society of Jesus to provide technical assistance to Jesuit social apostolates in Korea and organizations and movements with which they form coalitions or networks.

News and Events

ASEAN urged to take stronger stand on climate change

11 November 201011 November 2010

A coalition of major international environment groups has called on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to take a stronger stand on climate change in the upcoming climate talks in Cancun, Mexico.

Programs and Projects

The Latin American Conjuncture Report

11 November 201011 November 2010

The Conference of Jesuit Provincials of Latin America (CPAL) launched in 2008 the “Latin American Conjuncture Report” an initiative to take the pulse to the

Editorials

Environment Refugees’ Unclear Legal Status: New Approaches Urgently Needed, Study Says

15 October 201013 March 2014

The phenomenon is well known since long, but concrete numbers are rare: more and more people are forced to relocate permanently from their homes, due to environmental degradation and ecosystem losses.

Projections for 2050, released by the International Organization of Migration in 2008, range from 25 million to one billion people displaced by the consequences only of climate change. Their livelihoods are threatened in many ways: farmers lose arable land due to droughts and other extreme weather events whereas islands and coastal areas are affected by devastating storm tides. As a result, people migrate from environments which no longer guarantee food stability and which no longer are hospitable for human civilization.

Reflections

Stop being concerned about your benefit!

15 October 201029 October 2012

Simon Lochbrunner, SJ is a theologian and formerly worked as a certified organic farmer in Southern Germany. He is currently assisting at St. Ansgar Youth pastoral (KSJ) in Hamburg. Contact: simon.lochbrunner@jesuiten.org

News and Events

European Bishops Ecology Pilgrimage

15 October 20104 November 2010

Around fifty delegates from more than fifteen countries of the Bishops’ Conferences of Europe set out on 1st September 2010 from the Basilica of Esztergom, Hungary on a pilgrimage of hope for all creation to the Shrine of Mariazell in Austria, passing through Slovakia where we were welcomed by the Archbishop of Bratislava, Stanislav Zvolenský. The initiative was inspired by Pope Benedict XVI’s Message for the World Day of Peace in 2010 entitled If you want to cultivate peace, protect creation.

News and Events

‘Green’ Bishop Receives Alternative Nobel Prize

15 October 20104 November 2010

A leading figure in Brazil’s environment movement, Erwin Kräutler, is one of the four winners of the Right Livelihood Award 2010, known as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’. The 71-year-old Catholic Bishop of Xingu in the Amazon region is honoured for “a lifetime of work for the human and environmental rights of indigenous peoples and for his tireless efforts to save the Amazon forest from destruction”, the prize committee in Stockholm said.

Programs and Projects

Corporate Social Responsibility in the Congolese mining companies

15 October 201017 June 2023

Two events have prompted a field mission in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as part of the project “Relational Peace Advocacy Network” (RPAN) of OCIPE in June 2010.

First, the CEPAS, our partner in the Congo in the triangulation Brussels – Kinshasa and Washington, organized two workshops on social responsibility of extracting companies; and second, a team of three researchers collected the information necessary for academic research on practices of mining companies in Katanga.

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Breathtaking Figures: New Studies on Status and Economics of Earth’s Biodiversity

Higher Education Institutions in Spain and Sustainability

New center in Korea Province includes ecological concerns

ASEAN urged to take stronger stand on climate change

The Latin American Conjuncture Report

Environment Refugees’ Unclear Legal Status: New Approaches Urgently Needed, Study Says

Stop being concerned about your benefit!

European Bishops Ecology Pilgrimage

‘Green’ Bishop Receives Alternative Nobel Prize

Corporate Social Responsibility in the Congolese mining companies