[…] all and meant for all (LS25). He states that “climate change represents one of the principal challenges facing humanity today” (LS 25). Action on Climate Change: 2015 -2016: A Climate Petition by the Global Catholic Climate Movement circulated around the world with support of Pope Francis and the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (FABC). […]
[…] 2016: The United Church of Canada encouraged members to support the People’s Climate Plan during Federal Climate Consultations this summer. 2015: The “Church in Mission unit” and PC -PMM (Permanent Committee for Programs for Mission and Ministry) is looking at ways “An Economy of Life for All” can be sustained by changing tax laws and […]
[…] the role that taxation and investment can play in improving the fate of creation.
An abbreviated list of resources is included in Living Ecological Justice (pp. 120 -121), but there wasn’t room for everything. Included here is a more comprehensive list of recommended reading. We hope that this material will help you on your […]
Films and short videos can enhance your discussions on climate change and ecological justice. What follows is a small sampling. Please note that while we offer this material for your consideration, CPJ does not necessarily endorse the material or the messages contained in these videos.
August 2018
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Following the release of -action/pricing-carbon-pollution/output-based-pricing-system-technical-backgrounder.html”>updates to the federal carbon pricing system for the country’s largest emitters, CPJ wrote to Prime Minister Trudeau to express concern about the changes announced and to urge his government to return the output–based standards to at most 70 and 80 […]
On Dec. 10 and 11, Marrakech, Morocco was host to the Intergovernmental Conference on the Global Compact for Migration, where the majority of United Nations Member States adopted the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. The Compact outlines a set of 23 objectives to promote international cooperation on global migration.
By any standard, the 1980s had been a gung -ho decade for Citizens for Public Justice. The growing team of Board and staff members had taken on new issues for research and action. They had opened offices in three provinces. They had gone all–out for change on concrete issues from the land rights of […]
[…] understand how polluting industries and constant economic growth cannot coexist with sustainable living if profit and materialism remain the focus. We have failed to acknowledge how low -income countries will suffer in extreme and overwhelming ways if the prosperous and democratic West cannot pave the way for everyone to find a livable future. And […]
From the Catalyst, Winter 2016 Canada is a wealthy country. So when there are 4.9 million people living in poverty, something is not working. National data, as outlined in CPJ’s 2016 poverty report, Break the Barriers, tell us an important part of the story.
October 2017
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CPJ wrote to the Minister of Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship, Ahmed Hussen, to express our support for. proposed changes to interest charges on travel loans offered to refugees. The new policy changes outlined that no interest charges would apply to future loans and any outstanding loans would not […]
