Water crisis threatens over 12 million people in Iraq and Syria
More than 12 million people in Syria and Iraq are losing access to water, food and electricity and urgent action is needed to combat a severe water crisis.
Children in six Asian countries at ‘extremely high risk’ of the climate crisis
Understanding where and how children are uniquely vulnerable to [the climate] crisis is crucial in responding to it.
Green group questions Asian Development Bank’s coal buy-out scheme
ADB and other key financial institutions earlier expressed intention to pursue a scheme to buy out coal power plants.
Philippine bishops back call for action for ‘healthy planet and healthy people’
The petition specifically tells global leaders how they should care for “our common home”
Philippine artisanal fishermen cry for help as illegal fishing empties municipal waters
Community fishermen are typically poor and buried in debt as they lose out to dynamite fishing as well as commercial fishing boats intruding into municipal waters. A proposed law will exacerbate their woes.
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On Ecological Sin (Part II): ‘The Greed Line’
The human imprint on the global environment has now become so large and active that it rivals some of the great forces of nature in its impact on the functioning of the Earth system
Human rights lawyer, environmental defender gunned down in Mindanao
Macababbad was the 58th lawyer and the third member of the red-tagged National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers killed under the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte.
On Ecological Sin (Part 1)
There is so much to learn from our tradition and there is so much to learn from others and Laudato Si’, I believe, is leading us towards that path.
Amnesty International urges governments to recognize the right to a healthy environment
Callamard said governments’ failure to address the impacts of the climate crisis in spite of overwhelming scientific evidence “may well be the biggest inter-generational human rights violation in history.”
Philippines remains as Asia’s deadliest country for environment and land defenders
The Global Witness report ranked the Philippines third world’s deadliest country with 29 killings of environmental defenders in 2020.