by Deborah Phelan | Jun 13, 2015 | Climate Change
In an unprecedented papal encyclical, Pope Francis is calling for a economic and ethical revolution to wage battle against climate change. The letter to the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics will be released in five languages on Thursday, June 18 and will expound...
by Deborah Phelan | Jun 1, 2015 | Climate Change, mitigation
As the Bonn Climate Talks launched today, France’s foreign minister Laurent Fabius urged that any climate agreement must be worded in a manner which does not require consent of the United States Congress. “We must find a formula which is valuable for everybody...
by Deborah Phelan | Mar 16, 2015 | Children, Climate Change, DRR, Food Security, Global Health, Youth
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, speaking at the Third World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR) in Sendai, Japan, yesterday emphasized the need to “embed Disaster Risk Reduction into the very DNA of our sustainable development framework.”...
by Deborah Phelan | Feb 28, 2015 | Children, Climate Change, Food Security, Global Health, Our Blog
The failure of government officials to adequately represent the necessity to actively involve youth within the framework of the Sustainble Development Goals (SDGs) is further fueling collaboration among numerous organizations championing the rights of youth to...
