Water & Sanitation, A People's Guide to SDG 6: A right's based approach to implementation
Water & Sanitation, A People's Guide to SDG 6: A right's based approach to implementation, prepared by the NGO Mining Working Group (May 2017).
Our Planet
Paris Agreement enters into force
The Paris Climate Change Agreement, concluded in Paris, France, in December 2015, will enter into force on November 4, 2016.
United for the Earth, our Common Home
To mark Mother Earth Day, the Iyolosiwa team in Ayutla and Cecile united in prayer. With touching spirit, we asked pardon for harm done, for our passivity, indifference, consumerism, the invasion of mining, and all of the situations that have wounded Mother Earth.
COP 21
As the UN Conference on Climate Change – COP 21 – stands at our door steps, we would like to alert you to some useful websites to follow the Summit’s developments in Paris. In the meantime, let’s keep praying for courageous deliberations and decisive outcomes that our world and planet Earth so urgently need.
A Defining Week
When a diplomat called September 25-30, 2015, “a defining week”, he was pointing to three critical events taking place at the United Nations: more than 150 Heads of State or Heads of Government spoke during the annual General Debate at the beginning of the 70th Session of the General Assembly, with the situation in Syria dominating many speeches; the adoption of Agenda 2030, the Post 2015 Development Agenda, with an address by Pope Francis...
Wake Up the World
During his recent visit to the United States, Pope Francis also visited the United Nations in New York (on 25 September 2015) to address the General Assembly at the beginning of the Summit that would adopt the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Pause for Peace 2015
During the 2013 World Youth Day celebrations in Brazil, Pope Francis called the world to greater solidarity: "I would like to make an appeal to those in possession of greater resources, to public authorities and to all people of good will who are working for social justice: never tire of working for a more just world, marked by greater solidarity…"
Preparing for a just climate agreement in Paris
Many at the UN call 2015 a once-in-a-generation opportunity for transformational change. Why? Because this year three pivotal summits are taking place which, together, can set the world on a track for true change and transformation...
DPI/NGO Conference 2014
From 27-29 August 2014, the NGO community at the United Nations gathered at UN Headquarters in New York for the 65th DPI/NGO Conference. It was nice to be back in New York after six years of being “on the road” due to renovations of UN Headquarters. This year’s conference had as title: 2015 and Beyond, Our Action Agenda.
A transforming development agenda?
When the international community gathered for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development – Rio +20 – in June 2012, it mandated the formulation of sustainable development goals which should be coherent with and integrated into the UN’s post 2015 development agenda. An Open Working Group was tasked to articulate and propose a set of SDGs – Sustainable Development Goals – that would guide the world’s development framework for the period 2016-2030.
Think•Eat•Save
Think·Eat·Save – that is the theme of this year’s World Environment Day (June 5). Did you know that more than a billion tons of food is being wasted every year? While nearly 870 million people go to bed hungry every night and at least an equal number of adults around the world are overweight, food is lost and wasted in unacceptable amounts.
International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict
Today, November 6, 2012, is the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict . For more information about this day, ...
Statement on Rio +20
The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development – Rio +20 – is being held June 20-22, 2012, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A good resource to understand the core issues and to prayerfully follow this important summit is a statement written by Caritas Internationalis ...
Environmentally-induced migration
Whether or not they are a proven consequence of climate change, many of us witness or experience weather patterns that are different from those of three decades ago. Extreme rain fall leading to floods and mud slides such as in Pakistan and China in 2010, or severe droughts causing famine in Somalia last year ...
Launch of GEO-5 report
“The moment has come to put away the paralysis of indecision, acknowledge the facts and face up to the common humanity that unites all peoples, … Rio+20 is a moment to turn sustainable development from aspiration ..."
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