Ecojesuit

Geschiedenis

Ecojesuit is an international online communication platform supported by Global Ignatian Advocacy Network-Ecology of the Society of Jesus. Ecojesuit publishes primarily through its online newsletter online and also through Facebook and Twitter.ActivitiesThe Ecojesuit online, bi-monthly global newsletter is in Spanish, French and English. It focuses primarily on concerns of water, mining, food security, climate change, disaster resilience, energy and indigenous peoples. The newsletter brings together the concerns of communities from all regions of the world affected by such issues whilst also provide the scientific knowledge that hopes to inform responsible action. The newsletter is edited by the Jesuit European Social Centre (JESC) in Brussels, and the Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC) in Manila.The online newsletter provides original texts and articles. The articles' authors are university professors, parish priests, researchers, students, teachers of primary and secondary schools, Jesuits, and environmental professionals from a multitude of social and research centres, NGOs, universities and schools.The online platform has engaged the UN on the following: attending the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference (Copenhagen, 2009), the Rio+20 Earth Summit (2012), the campaign UN – World Water Day 2013 in the framework of the Millennium Development Goals.