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Contrasting Energies: Reflections on the UN Biodiversity Conference

Alyssa Ng January 13, 2023

The United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP15) was held December 7-19 in Montreal. Having studied environmental issues for both my bachelor’s and master’s degree, COP (Conference of the Parties) has been part of my vocabulary for years. I have always learned about the outcomes, especially from the climate COPs, but this time, I was fortunate to attend COP15 and track the negotiations for the Global Biodiversity Framework, the agreement debated on

The Center for Earth Ethics: A Reflection

Teddy Nalwanji January 12, 2023

Editor’s Note: During Fall 2022, the Center for Earth Ethics was proud to host Ugandan NGO leader Teddy Nalwanji as a Community Engagement Exchange Program Fellow, part of a US State Department-supported program. In this post, Teddy reflects on her time at CEE and in New York. “New York, here I come.” That was my first thought way back in April 2022 when I learned that I had been placed

Restoring Brigid, Restoring Justice

Shannon M.D. Smith January 10, 2023

Editor’s Note. This article was originally posted by Shannon M.D. Smith on the Women of the Water website as “A Time of Justice, A Season of Renewal” in January 2021 and on the CEE website on March 8, 2021 to mark President Biden’s Proclamation on Irish-American Heritage Month, 2021. CEE is reposting it now to lift up St. Brigid’s Day, celebrated on February 1 in Ireland. Beginning this year, Brigid’s Day will be an official bank holiday in

Demonstrating Hope: Notes from COP27

Andrew Schwartz November 21, 2022

It’s hard to say if the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP27, was good or bad. It’s a question of perspective and orientation. What was COP27, which recently concluded in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt? COP27 was an implementation COP, meaning that it followed up on the commitments made at COP26 in Glasgow and most importantly the commitments made at COP21 in Paris in 2015. The Paris commitment to keep

Green Spaces Are Not Luxuries: A Reflection on Mombasa

Andrew Schwartz August 20, 2022

As we work on ecosystem restoration, we need to be cognizant of the structures and histories that brought us to the place that we’re in today. Our current institutions, the way land is utilized and occupied, as well as the allocation of green spaces are all informed by the generations that came before us and the choices that they made. Though we cannot choose what we’ve inherited, we can choose

Engaging Women of Faith in Food Systems Transformation

Andrew Schwartz June 22, 2022

Food and water insecurity. Population growth. Diet and nutrition. These three conditions combined – exacerbated by climate change – are creating challenges and even failures of food systems in the Middle East and North African (MENA) region, both in regards to sustainability and human health. On June 7, 2022, the Faith + Food Coalition, along with its regional partners, hosted a side event at the Bonn Climate Change Conference to hear directly from

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