EarthBeat

10/12/2025

Over 5,000 indigenous people attended the UN's climate summit in the Amazon to call for land rights over their ancestral territories, but it's unclear to what degree negotiations took them into account.

26/11/2025

Nearly 200 countries at the United Nations climate talks did little to counteract papal criticism that "failing" political will is undermining global efforts to stave off dangerous levels of global warming, say Catholic officials who attended the COP30 summit in Belém, Brazil, at the edge of the Amazon rainforest.

Nearly 200 countries at the U.N. climate talks did little to counteract papal criticism that "failing" political will is undermining global efforts against global warming, say Catholic officials who attended the COP30 summit.

23/11/2025

If humans know what needs to be done to address climate change and already possess many of the tools and technologies to do so, why are they not doing it?

A cultural change is badly needed to shake climate negotiations from its too-prevalent low ambition, say people of faith involved in the Global Ethical Stocktake.

20/11/2025

"COP30 is a signal of hope, but we cannot fool ourselves. The Amazon, like Pope Francis said in Puerto Maldonado [in 2018], is facing its most serious threat," Archbishop Roque Paloschi of Porto Velho said.

19/11/2025

Caritas projects offer a sign of hope that solutions to climate change, whether mitigating heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions or adapting to impacts like more severe heatwaves and storms, can in fact work.

18/11/2025

A climate march drew people from all over the world into the streets of Belém, Brazil, at the midpoint of the COP30 U.N. climate change conference. It was the first massive public demonstration at a COP in four years.

17/11/2025

The joint appeal calls for an immediate halt on fossil fuel exploration and for the taxation of endeavors already in progress.

14/11/2025

As world leaders gather in Belém, Brazil, for the COP30 climate summit, faith leaders call out the "tragic, sinful gap between the call to care for creation and the failure of governments to act."

11/11/2025

While Brazil hosts the United Nations climate change conference, known as COP30, in Belém, Nov. 10-21, church leaders intend to bring a powerful faith presence there.

10/11/2025

With COP30 underway Brazil, faith leaders say the time for polite appeals is over. From Turkana's dry fields to the Amazon's burning forests, the church is turning to action and demanding world leaders keep their promises.

05/11/2025

Ahead of the United Nations' annual climate conference, two U.S. Catholic bishops and the leader of a top Catholic aid agency are calling for urgent, long-term action to safeguard both creation and humanity.

03/11/2025

As Lake Victoria's rising waters displace families, Catholic leaders and villagers plant bamboo to restore their land and send a message to world leaders meeting in Brazil.