#Environment

The race for lithium, a battery essential, albeit with high social and environmental costs

There’s more to “Green revolution” than most people realize.  South America , where “Green” is not equivalent to environmental protection,…

49th Social Week of Italian Catholics. “Continuous dialogue with everyone provided the good of peoples is pursued”

“The health crisis and the suffering caused by COVID-19 and by environmental pollution cannot be ignored. The ‘threat’ of the…

Australia floods. Msgr. Vincent Long (Parramatta): “Ecological conversion to save the planet from devastation”

Towns and villages without water supplies; devastating flooding across the country.  Thousands evacuated, and several have died.  SIR contacted the…

Norway: Trondheim, diocese purchases six electric vehicles for priests. Fr. Vold (treasurer), “we take environmental challenges seriously”

Day of Forests: EU Commission, “new guidelines” for “wildfire prevention and effective responses”

Water: Borrell and Sinkevičius (EU), “everyone needs to play their part; let’s make every drop count”.

Monoculture plantations where forests are burning, territories devastated: native peoples’ “resistance” in the wake of Laudato Si

Uncontrolled deforestation, land devastation, forest fires. To combat the damaging effects of monoculture, the mobilisation of the local community in…

United Kingdom: zero emissions, 100 parishes and 200 schools involved in the two-year project of the Catholic Church

Climate: US rejoining Paris Agreement. Guterres (UN) welcomes “President Biden’s commitment. But there is a very long way to go”

Eurostat: over 40% of plastic packaging recycled in Europe. Record-breaking numbers in Lithuania, Malta last on the list. Italy above EU average

Environment: EEA, fewer deaths from pollution but still a high number of deaths. Too much smog in Italy, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Poland and Romania