The doctrine of the Catholic Church looks at climate change as a threat to integral human development that has to be addressed through a combination of global governance and changes in moral attitudes towards the Creation as well as life styles. While there is, at present, a general consensus of science, politics, business communities and people on the need for strong climate change policies, the collective actions in place can be insufficient to control climate change and its impacts. A key issue is still the relationship between rich as well as emerging countries, the main contributors to emissions, and the poor countries, which are bound to suffer the most from climate change in terms of human and economic costs.
La dottrina della Chiesa guarda al cambiamento climatico come una minaccia per lo sviluppo umano integrale che deve essere affrontata attraverso una combinazione di governance globale e cambiamenti di attitudine morale verso il Creato e di stili di vita. Mentre vi è ora un generale consenso della scienza, della politica, degli attori economici e delle persone sulla necessità di forti politiche climatiche, gli attuali impegni di controllo del clima e dei suoi impatti potrebbero essere insufficienti. Una questione chiave rimane il rapporto tra, da un lato, i Paesi ricchi ed emergenti, che sono i maggiori emettitori di gas serra, e, dall’altro lato, i Paesi poveri, che sono destinati a soffrire di più le conseguenze umane ed economiche del cambiamento climatico.
Zoboli, R., Cambiamento climatico e sviluppo umano, <<DIZIONARIO DI DOTTRINA SOCIALE DELLA CHIESA>>, 2021; 2021 (2): 14-24. [doi:10.26350/dizdott_000041] [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/182960]
Cambiamento climatico e sviluppo umano
Zoboli, Roberto
2021
Abstract
The doctrine of the Catholic Church looks at climate change as a threat to integral human development that has to be addressed through a combination of global governance and changes in moral attitudes towards the Creation as well as life styles. While there is, at present, a general consensus of science, politics, business communities and people on the need for strong climate change policies, the collective actions in place can be insufficient to control climate change and its impacts. A key issue is still the relationship between rich as well as emerging countries, the main contributors to emissions, and the poor countries, which are bound to suffer the most from climate change in terms of human and economic costs.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.