Tag: climate crisis
Asian climate activists call on corporations to stop financing fossil fuel...
The climate crisis has driven the world to the brink of multiple “disastrous” tipping points
Will Pakistan floods spur better climate disaster planning?
As losses from climate-fueled disasters rise, investment in cutting risks makes financial sense - and can solve multiple problems at once
World in ‘wrong direction’ as climate impacts worsen: UN
"Floods, droughts, heatwaves, extreme storms and wildfires are going from bad to worse, breaking records with alarming frequency"
Aid to the Church in Need to send help to flood...
The charity will channel help through leading Church project partners who are grappling with desperate appeals for help from people
Pakistani cardinal says poor paying price of unprecedented destruction caused by...
“As always, it is the poor who pay the price,” said Cardinal Joseph Coutts, archbishop emeritus of Karachi
Philippines opens ‘Season of Creation’ with call to change ‘abusive ways’
“Listen to the voice begging us to change our abusive ways,” urged Bishop Pablo Virgilio David, president of Philippine bishops’ conference
The crushing burden of debt
So why not call it quits. Cancel the foreign debt of the poor nations and in return cancel the climate debt owned by the rich nations?
Pope Francis: The poor suffer the most from heat waves, drought
In a message for the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, the pope said that it is “the poorest among us who are crying out”
Global heating, human development could drive future waves of disease in...
Disturbance of ecosystems as humans interact with wild species make future outbreaks and pandemics more likely
Help stop the extinction of a million species
More than 10,000 wild species are harvested for human food with one-in-five people dependent on such species for income and food