If the world is to win the fight against climate change, its leaders must stop profiting from fossil fuels that threaten the survival and well-being of the planet and its inhabitants, Pope Francis said.

The Jesuit university has achieved carbon neutrality through energy efficiency and also through the financial support of reforestation projects and other green initiatives around the world.

The students in Kenya understood in the most visceral way the value of water. The misuse of natural resources during our age of climate change is unethical and inhuman. No matter your world view, water is special. Kids get this.

For decades, Lopez has sought to re-establish our ethical relationships with the land and the other creatures who dwell on it. But Lopez, like many authors, struggles against labels.

A Jesuit from the Zimbabwe-Mozambique province has said that the recent cyclone that hit Africa has "wiped out entire villages"; 2 million people have been affected and more than 700 people have been killed by the storm.

Indigenous women of the Amazon region of Ecuador are taking on an increasingly prominent role in advocating for the environment, and the Church is taking notice.