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Gore Addresses Faith and Spiritual Leaders at Brooklyn Summit

Executive Director Karenna Gore delivered the morning keynote address at “Climate Change, Disasters & the Vulnerable Communities We Serve,” the Fall 2022 New York City Faith Sector Preparedness Summit on Wednesday, September 28, at Brooklyn Borough Hall. In her address, “The Climate Emergency: Why Faith and Spiritual Communities Matter,” Gore noted that “faith and spirituality are themselves important to how many people respond to extreme weather events.” People understand their relationship with nature “in the context of their relationship with God or some divine being or beings.” Faith traditions teach about “caring the most vulnerable and those who have been

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CEE Welcomes Nalwanji as 2022 Fellow

This fall, the Center for Earth Ethics is proud to host Teddy Nalwanji, an emerging young civil society leader from Uganda, as a Community Engagement Exchange Fellow through a U.S. State Department initiative.  During her 12-week practicum at CEE, Nalwanji will conduct research on climate and health, especially initiatives across lower-income communities worldwide. She will use her experience to ensure greater access to information about climate change in her native country. Nalwanji comes to CEE with strong civil society experience. She was a youth researcher in Youth Think Tank program at Restless Development in Kampala, Uganda, where she participated in youth-led

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Columbia Law School Panel Examines Environmental Jurisprudence

“We can only make change if we all come together.” Maliya Francis, a student at Avenues the World School in New York, made this remark in introducing “Reframing Environmental Jurisprudence towards Interconnection,” a discussion at Columbia Law School on Wednesday, September 21. Organized by the school’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and Earth Law Center, the panel addressed the future of environmental jurisprudence in a time of climate change and biodiversity loss. Francis, a former summer intern at the Earth Law Center, highlighted the need for ‘intergenerational accountability” about climate change. Barnard College student Renata Happle, a Liman Fellow

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