This article provides a commentary on Fr. Albino Barrera’s “Catholic Social Thought’s Order of Charity and Balancing Clashing Sustainable Development Goals.” In his paper, Fr. A. Barrera presents an insightful framework for addressing trade-offs between poverty alleviation and climate change mitigation in the context of resource scarcity. He proposes that,...
Today, climate policy actors and scholars are shifting their focus onto factors that could speed up climate action because most countries are failing to deliver on their promises regarding the Paris Agreement (UNEP, 2022), and humanity keeps breaking ever-new wrong records on climate change (UNEP, 2023). The Sixth Assessment Report...
“…the time has come to accept decreased growth in some parts of the world, in order to provide resources for other places to experience healthy growth.” Laudato Si’,193. Introduction By now, the social encyclical Laudato Si’ (2015) by Pope Francis has become “the most cited Catholic text in the highest...
“And yet the just transition might indeed be the most interesting idea of the early 21st century, as the twin crises of inequality and the biosphere feed one another—provided we embrace its full meaning.” Éloi Laurent, “Reimagining Just Transition” (2020) It is not a new insight that social/income inequality...
