Today in Rome, the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development launched the much awaited enrollment phase of the Laudato Si’ Action Platform.
A scientific paper published in JAMA Network Open, part of the Journal of the American Medical Association, provides clear evidence that the exacerbation of air pollution and heat levels caused by climate change can have severely adverse effects on the unborn, specifically tied to premature births, underweight babies, and stillborn babies.
As we reel from one crisis to another, 2020 is turning out to be a threshold moment that is challenging us all at once to focus on what is required to build a better world together – for all of us, and for future generations.