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Date(s) - 11/11/2021
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
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A kairos moment of COP26 when an international group of Catholic artists, activists and academics will reflect on climate justice and the integrity of creation in prayerful anticipation of a world-wide change of heart and a renewed commitment by all nations to nurture planet earth and all that exists on it.
This event looks at the way some individuals and communities are more vulnerable to climate impacts than others. As Pope Francis observes in Laudato Si’, where there is environmental and social degradation, the vulnerable are hardest hit. Teresian Sister Veronica Nyoni, headteacher at St Columba’s Community Secondary school Lusaka, Zambia will discuss how drought, failure of hydro power and other climate effects are taking a heavy toll on the women and girls in her community. Indian theologian Kochurani Abraham, author of Persisting Patriarchy: Intersectionalities, Negotiations, Subversions (2019), also adopts a gender lens applying it not only to the climate emergency but to the concept and practices of ecological conversion. Professor Mary Jo Iozzio, author of Disability Ethics/Preferential Justice: A Catholic Perspective (forthcoming with Georgetown University Press) considers the challenges that climate change presents to people with disability and identifies strategies of resistance and resilience.
The event will be chaired by Marian Pallister, chair of Pax Christi Scotland.
Kochurani Abraham – Climate Emergency and Ecological Conversion: A Gender Perspective
Mary Jo Iozzio – Climate Change and the Vulnerable: People with Disability
Sr Veronica Nyoni – Climate Impacts on Women and Girls in Zambia
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