Daily blog reports from the COP 15 Climate Change negotiations in Copenhagen, December 2009 from the CIDSE-Caritas Internationalis team as part of our joint Poverty and Climate Justice Campaign.

Looking at climate change from an urban angle—one of many options, from national security to the classic environmental approach—allows one a glimpse of how deep the issue actually is.

Yesterday's New York Times featured an opinion piece by Eric Zencey, professor of historical and political studies at Empire State College, entitled “G.D.P. R.I.P.” In it, Zencey makes the case that it is time to get rid of the outmoded economic concept “gross domestic product” and replace it with one that better captures well-being and our nation’s economic health.

Pope Benedict is calls a positive harnessing of the potential within globalization and a globalization with a human face, in which
the human dignity of each individual retains primacy of place in any ethical, political or economic deliberation on globalization.