Insights from COP25 Chile Madrid, 2019.
Being one of the 28,000 delegates to the 25th Assembly of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP25) convened in Madrid, Spain from 2nd to 13th December 2019 was not only a very interesting opportunity to interact with experts from diverse disciplines all with a common interest of saving the deteriorated…
Tree planting ~ a Process not an Event
Masvingo Region National Movement of Catholic Students (NMCS) were prompted that tree planting day should not be an event but rather a process which encompasses follow ups on the trees planted, with the purpose of motivating the nation to plant, care for, and conserve trees, as a way ensuring sustainability…
First Open Ended Working Group on the Post 2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
The strategic plan for biodiversity 2011-2020 adopted in Nagoya, Japan during COP 10 in 2010 is expected to expire as the decade is already over. This necessitated the recent COP 14 meeting in Egypt to debate on coming up with a design process towards the adoption of the post 2020…
Young People Feature Predominantly at the High-Level Ministerial Segment of the AMCEN
Yesterday, in Durban, South Africa, the Ministers of Environment and other delegates including those from the African Major Groups and Stakeholders (MGS) participated in the high-level ministerial segment of the Seventeenth Session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN). In the meeting where incessant reference to the youth…
The African Civil Society Group meets with the UNEP Director of Governance Affairs
Right after the opening of the 17th Session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN), which is taking place at the Olive Convention Centre in Durban, South Africa, the African Civil Society Group held a meeting with the Director of Governing Affairs at the UN Environment Programme (UNEP),…
CYNESA's Mission is to offer the platform through which young Catholics across Africa, respond to the twin challenges of Environmental Degradation and Climate Change, from the perspective of Catholic social teaching on care for creation, paying attention to the most vulnerable.