The Columbans, Maryknoll and the Sisters of Mercy justice offices have worked with Church World Service to develop a petition to the World Bank calling for an end to financing of fossil fuel projects and instead investment in small-scale renewable energy projects in communities that lack energy access.
The urgent challenge to protect our common home includes a concern to bring the whole human family together to seek a sustainable and integral development…Humanity still has the ability to work together in building our common home. Young people demand change. They wonder how anyone can claim to be building a better future without thinking of the environmental crisis and the sufferings of the excluded. (Laudato Si’ 13)