A JUST TRANSITION: EUROPE'S RESPONSABILITY TO ITS PEOPLE ANDE THE WORLD

 

To Forum of Catholic Inspired NGOs participants, with the invitation to spread in your own networks (great opportunity: instantaneous translation live in English, español, italiano, português, polski)

 

Dear Forum of Catholic Inspired NGOs participants,

 in the light of the email on "commencement of Forum 2020 - 2022 activities" just received from Geoffrey Strickland on behalf of the Forum Committee and the "focus upon the pandemic so as to move forward in mutual support and synergistic thinking", We invite you to attend the next Season of Creation Webinar “A Just Transition: Europe’s Responsibility to its People and to the World”, hosted by GCCM and CIDSE, that will be held on 24^th September and to spread the news in your network. (More info below; an invitation text is available here ). The webinar will be in English and it will be simultaneously translated in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, or Polish. 

This webinar will explore how the coronavirus crisis and the environmental crisis are related, and how regional approaches to a just transition to integral ecology could be developed. It will contribute to informing, connecting and mobilising people of goodwill in relation to a Just Transition in Europe, and importantly - to Europe’s responsibilities for a Just Transition globally. On the occasion of the Season of Creation, as a time for reflection, prayer and action, it will contribute to create an understanding of engagement in public affairs as an answer to Pope Francis call to hear ‘the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor’.

Speakers will include Sr Alessandra Smerilli, economist and coordinator of the Vatican’s Commission for Covid-19’s Economics Task Force, member of the Scientific Committee and organizer of the Catholic Italian Social Weeks; 

Marcin Kędzierski, EU and Poland expert at the Jagiellonian Club, an independent think tank in Poland; 

Lydia Lehlogonolo Machaka, CIDSE Climate Justice & Energy officer; 

Edwin Mumbere, Coordinator at Centre for Citizens Conserving and fossil fuel activist in Uganda

 

8:00 Quito / 9:00 NYC / 10:00 São Paulo / 14:00 UK / 15:00 Rome / 16:00 Nairobi

• Register here to attend in English or receive interpretation in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, or Polish.
• Watch the live stream here in English only.

Info about the Season of Creation Webinar “A Just Transition: Europe’s Responsibility to its People and to the World”

For more info about the Season of Creation

• Website of the Season of Creation (available in EN, ES, FR, IT, PL, PT)
• Link to register events
• Link to the Celebration Guide
• Link to the Catholic page with resources