This website is a project of the Carmelite NGO, which is affiliated with several U.N. bodies, including the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).
This integral ecology project/website is designed to educate and activate people on our global environmental challenges and their impact on the national world and human communities. This project recognizes the inextricable link between the environmental and social worlds, which are further connected to moral and ethical principles that require all of us to care for each other and for our common home, planet Earth. Everything is connected. That is what is meant by integral ecology. Integral ecology is the foundational concept in Pope Francis’ encyclical, Laudato Si’, which is the inspiration for this project.
What you will find on this website is original video content, as well as videos from other sources. There are also articles and reports, as well as links to valuable organizations and resources. This website is a constantly developing repository of all things related to integral ecology.
We seek to inform, as well as to encourage action to build a more sustainable and just world.
About the camelite NGO
The Carmelite NGO is a non-governmental organization in Special Consultative status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations and affiliated with the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), United Nations Environment Programme, and the Department of Global Communications (DGC) of the U.N.
The NGO serves as the representative of the global Carmelite family at the United Nations. The Carmelites are a Catholic religious order of men and women serving across the world in schools, hospitals, prisons, parishes, and in many other ministries.
This project does speak to our Catholic brothers and sisters, but following Pope Francis’, we are reaching out to all people of good will who care about the environment and social justice. We hope you all will find this website and the materials gathered here to be helpful and even inspirational!
The Four Pillars of the Carmelite NGO:
Sustainable Development
- Promoting equitable human development while addressing the threats posed by climate change and biodiversity loss.
- Following the principles and moral vision shared by Pope Francis in Laudato Si’.
Education
- Committed to education for all, regardless of gender, class, ethnicity, religion or other differences.
- Educating for social and environmental justice and promoting integral ecology.
Human Rights
- Working to end extreme poverty.
- Advocating for an end to human trafficking and giving assistance to victims.
Freedom of Belief
- Working in an ecumenical spirit; respecting all faiths.
- Believing that all faiths everywhere should be free from repression.
Dear Sister/Brother.Peace and all Good.
The “II Symposium for the care of the common home: Latin America and the Caribbean on the way to accelerating the just energy transition in the key of Integral Ecology” was held on September 7th.
“The just energy transition is related to tuning the beating of the human heart, still linked to the rhythm of voracious, frenetic, predatory and destructive consumption, with that harmonious and deep rhythm of the beating of the heart of creation through the “Good Living”.
“The energy transition runs the risk of being once again unjust if it only involves replacing the burning of fossil fuels with the use of renewable energy” because “to extend the market logic to renewable energies simply is not sustainable.“
Eduardo Agosta Scarel, O. Carm.
Asesor Principal en Incidencia Política / Advocacy Senior Advisor