Please join us for an online parallel event focused on Sustainable Development Goal: 13 Climate Action during the United Nations High Level Political Forum 2024. In response to SDG 13: Climate Action, this online event will raise awareness and educate about faith-based tools and responses to climate anxiety in youth. Participants will engage in conversation concerning climate change and climate anxiety, offering means for young people to cultivate resilience and hope in the face of this reality. This webinar will engage a diverse set of speakers from around the world on the topic of youth climate anxiety and responses of resilience and hope.
Speakers:
Dr. Hilda Koster / Dr. Cynthia Cameron, Regis - St. Michael’s Faculty of Theology (Canada)
Melodie Ng, Toronto Urban Farmer (Canada)
Blair Nelsen, Waterspirit, UN Representative for the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace (United States)
Sr. Immaculate Tusingwire MMS, Global Laudato Si Movement (Uganda)
Thomas Gould, Youth Representation, Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns (United States)
Moderator: Kekhashan Basu, Founder, Green Hope Foundation
Event Sponsors: Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Loreto Generalate; Congregation of Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace NGO to the UN; Medical Mission Sisters; Maryknoll Sisters of St Dominic
Event Partners: Regis-St. Michael’s Faculty of the Theology; Elliott Allen Institute for Theology and Ecology; The Mary Ward Centre
