The Office of Religious Congregations for Integral Ecology
On September 15th, 2023 ORCIE was on Parliament Hill with friends from Fridays for Future, For the Love of Creation, KAIROS, Development and Peace-Caritas Canada, Citizens for Public Justice and many more groups for the Global Climate Strike, the biggest in-person rally of the climate movement in Ottawa since the pandemic. The major focus was the urgent need for an oil and gas greenhouse gas emissions cap in Canada, over 2 years overdue!
In November 2022, Michael Swan from the Catholic Register and Genevieve Gallant spoke at length about the importance of ORCIE. It was a timely conversation considering how important practical Catholic policy dialogue has become, especially when 626 oil and gas executives participated in the United Nation COP27.
Read the article here: https://www.catholicregister.org/archive/item/35024-ecology-comes-first-no-ifs-ands-or-buts