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We take a systemic approach, advocating for policies that contribute to relationships of solidarity with people and planet. Only with a transformation of humanity’s relationship with the earth and with the earth’s inhabitants will we be able take decisive action before we damage the planet beyond repair.

Pope Francis has named the critical moment we are in where a great cultural, spiritual and educational challenge stands before us, and it will demand that we set out on the long path of renewal.

We know facing the environmental challenges ahead of us requires improved collaboration and non-partisanship. Since our beginnings we have been in communication with elected officials, senior policy staff and faith-based and secular organizations working for increased attention to the climate emergency.


We apply the lens of integral ecology, to help move things forward with the clean energy transition and to strategically advance this change both nationally and globally.

The religious congregations involved in ORCIE-BCRÉI are taking action in their communities and are inspiring others to do the same. While Canadians are doing their part, we need action (and not just talk) in the House and Senate to move us forward in an ambitious and just transition towards 100% clean energy, if Canadians hope to ever meet our emissions reduction targets.

Resolute action to significantly reduce fossil fuel emissions, investment in innovative infrastructure with new, good jobs, and courageous commitment to the net zero path, is necessary at this time.


Latest Updates:


Linking Ecological Debt to Global Financial Exploitation

February 28, 2025 - Climate Justice, International, National
For Jubilee 2025 ORCIE explores the concept of ecological debt and its deep connections to global financial exploitation in a special deep-dive position paper, Linking Ecological Debt to Global Financial...
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Long-awaited emissions cap for Canada’s fossil fuel sector

November 28, 2024 - Climate Justice, National
On November 20, 2025 ORCIE sent a letter to Steven Guilbeault, Minister of the Environment and Climate Change at the release of the draft Oil and Gas Sector Greenhouse Gas...
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Climate Aligned Finance

October 26, 2024 - Climate Justice, National
The climate emergency calls for new energy to debate ambitious ideas and innovative solutions - including ideas for our federally regulated financial institutions, who need to get in line with...
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The Sustainable Jobs Act

June 30, 2024 - Climate Justice, National
The Canadian Sustainable Jobs Act has been a move in the right direction, but there is still more ground to cover to bring about an equitable energy transition that is...
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Global Treaty to Control Plastics Pollution

April 8, 2024 - Climate Justice, International, National
Sue Wilson, Executive Director of the Office for Systemic Justice, Federation of Sisters of St. Joseph of Canada, was one of the 2,500 delegates from 174 countries gathered at the...
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We acknowledge, with respect and humility, that our office is situated on the traditional and unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinabeg people.