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Fifth Session of the United Nations Environment Assembly
virtual2021 Theme: Strengthening Actions for Nature to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals The fifth session of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-5) provides leadership, catalyzes, intergovernmental actions on the environment, and contributes to the implementation of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, and
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Faith Communities After Glasgow: An Interfaith Examen of COP26
worldwide/virtualWhere did we find God in the COP26 Conversation? What is God doing with respect to our climate emergency today? The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP26, will end on 12 November. This historic meeting has been called the world’s “last best chance” to reduce carbon emissions and commit to a
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UN Ocean Conference
worldwide/virtualThe Ocean Conference, co-hosted by the Governments of Kenya and Portugal, comes at a critical time as the world is seeking to address many of the deep-rooted problems of our societies laid bare by the COVID-19 pandemic and which will require major structural transformations and common shared solutions that are anchored in the SDGs. To
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Highlighting Interfaith Responses to Climate Anxiety
Tzu Chi Center New York, NY, United StatesIn 2021, within the United States alone, over 47 million people expressed living with a mental health condition, a 1.5 million increase from the previous year’s State of Mental Health Report. The confluence of crises – from conflict to economic instability to climate change – have spread a sense of fear, anxiety and loss of
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