Two Jesuits from the Society’s European office in Brussels are at the Climate Conference in Copenhagen as NGO observers, part of a team of Franciscans International. José Ignacio Garcia and Jacques Haers are keeping up a blog, with posts in English and in Spanish. (Hat tip to the UK’s redoubtable Independent Catholic News). Particularly useful are their ‘Back to Basics’ posts which give a lot of the backstory — most helpful if, like me, you are (pun coming) green about such matters.

Austen Ivereigh is a fellow in Contemporary Church History at Campion Hall, at the University of Oxford, and a biographer of Pope Francis. In 2020 he collaborated with Pope Francis on Let Us Dream: the Path to a Better Future, published by Simon & Schuster. His most recent book is First Belong to God: On Retreat with Pope Francis, published by Loyola Press.