DECARBONISING MALAYSIA PROJECT

Decarbonising Malaysia Project

In 2015, Pope Francis wrote an encyclical letter to the whole world called “Laudato Si’- Care for Our Common Home”.  In it, His Holiness wrote that climate change represented one of the principal challenges facing humanity today (Laudato Si’#25) and stressed the need to move towards an Integral Ecology. Since then, the focus of the Catholic Church on ecology, especially the climate crisis, has intensified significantly.

Initiated in 2023, the overall goal of this project is that the Roman Catholic Church in Malaysia promotes and facilitates a just transition to an equitable, resilient, regenerative and decarbonised economy in the country from within the Catholic Church. This  entails working from the position of creation/ecological justice and resilience. The project is implementable at the individual, parish, diocesan, congregational and institutional levels in the Church. 

The project has developed a working framework for the transition in the Catholic Church in Malaysia. This is to enable the Catholic community in Malaysia to make the transformational change towards a more sustainable future. It is hoped that over the coming years, more Catholic parishes and communities/organizations in Malaysian dioceses will adopt and support ecological, resilient and low/zero carbon pathways.

Ecological Education

Capacity-Building

Collaboration & Advocacy