Carmelite NGO Presents at Socio-Environmental Dialogue for Peace: Adaptation and Just Transition

Ten years after Laudato Si’, the encyclical of Pope Francis that inspired a new environmental ethic and shaped the moral vision that accompanied the Paris Agreement, a renewed call emerges: there can be no lasting peace without harmony with nature.

At COP30 the organization Socio-Environmental Dialogue for Peace offered a meeting space to connect peace, climate adaptation, and a just transition, strengthening trust among communities, companies, and institutions. The objective is to move towards cooperation based on integrity and justice, reconciling people with one another and with the planet.

Carmelite NGO vice president, Eduardo Agosta, was one of the featured speakers. Fr. Eduardo is also director of the Department of Integral Ecology at the Spanish Episcopal Conference and senior advisor to the Laudato Si' Movement.

Other presenters were:

- José Luis Manzano, CEO of Integra Capital, physician and entrepreneur with experience in public policy, emerging markets, and strategic sectors such as energy and critical minerals;
- Ana Cabral-Gardner, co-chairperson and CEO of Sigma Lithium Corp, (Nasdaq:SGML), a global reference in sustainability and best practices in the lithium industry.
- Cardinal Leonardo Ulrich Steiner, archbishop of Manaus, who shared his vision from the Amazon on how to connect spirituality, science, and policy in the path towards a just transition.
- Juliano Assunção, professor of Economics at PUC-Rio, who addressed the economic dimension of a just transition and the cost of inaction.

The session was moderated by Emilce Cuda, secretary of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, and Patricio Lombardi, executive director of the Environmental Markets Fairness Foundation (EMFF).