Care for Our Common Home Ministry

04/17/2026

"The old strategy of obstructionists — denying climate change outright — has largely lost credibility among scientists and the public at large. The scientific consensus on human-caused climate change is overwhelming, and its impacts are increasingly visible. But the departure of denial has not meant the arrival of decisive action. Instead, something more subtle has taken its place: climate delay."

03/03/2026

https://e360.yale.edu/features/endangerment-finding
"The EPA’s effort to repeal the endangerment finding is unlikely to survive legal challenge. But regardless, we should be planning, developing, and building bipartisan support now for effective climate strategies that Congress and the states can take up when a window opens."

Environmentalists are challenging the EPA’s repeal of the “endangerment finding,” which empowered it to regulate greenhouse gases. Whether or not the action holds up in court, now is the time to develop climate strategies that can be pursued when the political balance shifts.

01/30/2026

"'Locking in new gas plants to meet uncertain AI energy demand means hard-wiring decades of pollution into a gambit that could be solved with flexible, clean power,' said Jenny Martos, project manager at GEM’s oil and gas plant tracker."

Projects in development expected to grow global capacity by nearly 50% amid growing concern over impact on planet

11/19/2025

"Pope Leo XIV urged countries at United Nations climate talks to take "concrete actions" to stop climate change that is threatening the planet, telling them humans are failing in their response to global warming and that God's creation "is crying out in floods, droughts, storms and relentless heat."

For the one-in-three people extremely vulnerable to impacts from rising global temperatures, "climate change is not a distant threat, and to ignore these people is to deny our shared humanity," Pope Leo said in his second message to the COP30 United Nations climate change conference in Brazil.

11/13/2025

"Global carbon emissions from fossil fuels are projected to rise to an all-time high this year, with increases expected to accelerate in the United States and European Union but slow in China and India, according to a report published Wednesday evening. At this rate, the authors said, it will take the world four years to pass the 1.5-degree threshold that experts have agreed would constitute catastrophic warming."

Emission-rate increases will accelerate in the U.S. and E.U. but will slow in China and India, according to a report published Wednesday.

11/08/2025

"No other countries have followed the United States in withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement, but the Trump administration is using a mix of lobbying and economic threats to thwart emissions-cutting and environmental initiatives around the world."

The Trump administration is using lobbying and economic threats to thwart emissions-cutting and environmental initiatives around the world.

11/07/2025

"Has anything changed over those 10 years? Actually, yes. Quite a bit, for the better and the worse. For one thing, every country remains committed to the Paris Agreement, except one. That’s the United States."

Has anything really changed in the decade since the Paris Agreement was reached? Actually, quite a lot.

09/03/2025

"The new court ruling said a healthy environment is a precondition to 'the right to life, the right to health and the right to an adequate standard of living, including access to water, food and housing.'"

A new advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice says a healthy environment is a foundational human right and nations are required to act on climate change — or face consequences.

07/08/2025

"We need policymakers to implement policies that bring forward the positive tipping points we need to stop greenhouse gas emissions and prevent the bad climate tipping points. If the EU and China were to coordinate, it could be enough to shift the balance towards clean green alternatives."

The world has been too optimistic about the risk to humanity and planet – but devastation can still be avoided, says Timothy Lenton

07/04/2025

"The legislation, which carries President Trump’s domestic policy agenda, provides a boost to fossil fuels and dismantles many of the biggest actions the federal government has ever taken to fight climate change, even as scientists warn that rising temperatures are creating acute dangers from extreme heat, deadly wildfires, crop failures and floods."

Here’s a rundown on the winners and losers in the legislation muscled through Congress.