Coordinated through the Dicastery for Integral Human Development, the platform, which launched Nov. 14, is “a seven-year journey that will see our communities committed in different ways to becoming totally sustainable, in the spirit of integral ecology,” Pope Francis said.
The young economists, entrepreneurs, scholars and scientists have been working online in international groups with older experts searching for ways to make the economy better for more people and for the environment.
The fund will support projects that promote respect for the earth and bring awareness to the urgent need to protect the environment.
When it comes to safeguarding creation, there is no time to waste — humanity either must live up to its responsibility or continue on a path of self-destruction, Pope Francis said, commemorating Earth Day with a video message.
The predominant global economic system is “unsustainable,” particularly in its impact on the environment, Pope Francis said Oct. 10 as part of the global TEDx Countdown on climate change.
Pope Francis will travel to Assisi Oct. 3 to sign an encyclical on the social, political and economic obligations that flow from a belief that all people are children of God and therefore brothers and sisters to one another.
With the 50th anniversary of Earth Day on April 22, the coronavirus pandemic should be a lesson for all of us, the author says: We must all do something.
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