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Water, blessing or curse?

JESC — Wed, 24 Apr 2019 10:20:11 +0000

From past to the present, water as the blessing of mother nature and strategic natural resource has always remained on the agenda due to its importance for all living organisms, as well as both agriculture and industry. Unfortunately, the future of this blessing hangs by a thread due to some causes such as overpopulation, waste, […]

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Making concrete the EU commitment on climate change

JESC — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 10:04:54 +0000

The environment ministers of the EU confirmed the proposal for COP21 to reduce emissions at least by 40% by 2030, and to reduce 80-95% in 2050 compared with 1990 In the last Council of the environment ministers of the European Union, that took place in Brussels on September the 19th, the Governments of the EU […]

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Economics of climate change: the economical debt?

JESC — Wed, 22 Jul 2015 07:50:03 +0000

Climate change has many dimensions: physical, social, political and also economical. Mitigation is a challenge to our economies. Waiting is not longer an option. We tend to associate climate change with phenomena such as typhoons, floods or droughts. But it has economic implications too and the purpose of this article is to look at some of […]

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Pope’s encyclical on environment sparks comments and hope

JESC — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 10:48:05 +0000

Ecology and Jesuits in Communication (Ecojesuit.com) has launched its special edition on Laudato Si’, Pope Francis’ environmental encyclical released last 18 June. This edition features six stories from colleagues in various Jesuit institutions in different regions of the world. S Ignacimuthu, SJ writes from India about the path-breaking character of the encyclical, Brother Ken Homan, […]

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EU Commissioner Cañete: “The call of Pope Francis to combat climate change could not be more timely”

JESC — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 10:52:19 +0000

The Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy, Mr. Miguel Arias Cañete, talks about challenges facing the EU as regards these matters and the contribution for the COP21 in Paris next December. There is still a large section of public opinion which remains sceptical about climate change. Why should Europe, a region still suffering from a deep crisis […]

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Adaptation or needed resilience

JESC — Tue, 19 May 2015 10:11:01 +0000

The impact of climate change will become more intense and its effects will be irreversible. We will have to adapt to new physical and climatic conditions. This article is the third in a series of monthly pieces that aims to prepare our readers for COP21, the UN Conference on Climate Change that will take place […]

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Call for an European mobilization for water

JESC — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 11:00:55 +0000

Citizens coming from all over Europe, representing the nearly two million people that supported the first successful European Citizen’s Initiative for the Right to Water, have come to demonstrate on the occasion of the World Water Day. Yesterday many NGOs and trade unions such as European Federation of Public Service Unions, European Public Water Network […]

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