Bruce Duncan. Pope Francis: take climate change & unfair economic systems seriously.
Pope Francis has repeatedly challenged us to ‘make some noise’ about the serious issues of climate change, as well as about poverty and extreme...
Bruce Duncan. Covid-19 has stripped us of our illusions about equity and fair play.
Few of us could have imagined that a virus invisible to the human eye could bring the world economy to its knees. Wealthy countries...
Bruce Duncan. Climate change links Australia & the Amazon.
2 July 2020 Photo Save the Amazon. Daniel Arrhakis. flickr cc. Australia faces some surprisingly similar issues to the Amazon, especially the rapid impact...
Editorial Peter Whiting. Sustainable Development Goals point to how to address post-Covid reforms.
Photo 70th Anniversary of UN, display of SDGs. UN photo/Cia Pak 2015. flickr cc. 4 June 2020 With the easing of Covid-19 restrictions coming...
Bruce Duncan. Pope Francis & the bushfires.
6 February 2020. Pope Francis warned of the dangers of ‘catastrophic’ weather events, like savage fires resulting from climate change, in his 2015 document,...
There’s a lot of bad news in the UN Global Environment Outlook, but a sustainable future is still possible.
Pedro Fidelman The University of Queensland. The Sixth Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6), the most comprehensive environmental assessment produced by the UN in five years,...