When it comes to caring for creation, there is a “slight disconnect” between the call for urgent action by Pope Francis and the slow or lack of action by most Catholics, said Cardinal Peter Turkson.
VATICAN CITY: To commemorate the 5th anniversary of the Paris Agreement adopted in December 2015 and the upcoming Climate Ambition Summit 2020 slated for 12 December, the Vatican Covid-19 Commission and its partners, in collaboration with the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE) organized a webinar on Wednesday.
The online event titled “Faith, Science and Youth: A call for an ambitious climate summit” aims to highlight the need to urge governments to raise their ambition for tackling the climate emergency.
It gathered global voices from faith, science and youth to discuss concrete ways to simultaneously address the ongoing Covid-19 health crisis and the climate crisis through “a just and sustainable recovery of economies and society that puts people and the planet before profit.”
12/09/2020 - Global greenhouse-gas emission reductions could be achieved in a fair and thrifty way by surprisingly small variations of well-known policies. This is shown by a team of economists in a quantitative study now published in Nature. Differentiated CO2 prices in different countries combined with moderate financial transfers from advanced to developing countries would do the job. These changes would be most efficient in achieving fair burden sharing and at the same time keep overall costs in check, the researchers find. This could solve the epic trilemma to unite cost-efficiency, national sovereignty and fair effort-sharing. Power lines in North York, Canada. Photo: Moreka Kazemi on Unsplash
To curb global carbon emissions and slow climate change, a group of economists recommend using a variable carbon price and mandating moderate financial transfers from mature to developing economies.