{"id":9720,"date":"2020-05-21T08:33:48","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T05:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=9720"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:31:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:31:05","slug":"keep-environment-central-during-pandemic-recovery-says-young-african","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/05\/21\/keep-environment-central-during-pandemic-recovery-says-young-african\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep Environment Central During Pandemic Recovery, Says Young African"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The head of an African network for young Catholics warned against prioritizing economic interests over social and environmental concerns as nations work to recover from the COVD-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Allen Ottaro, executive director Catholic Youth Network for Environmental Sustainability in Africa, spoke to Catholic News Service during Laudato Si\u2019 Week, May 16-24 celebrations to mark the fifth anniversary of Pope Francis\u2019 encyclical on \u201cour common home.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAs countries look to the post (COVID-19) recovery phase and restarting economies, there is a huge risk that economic considerations will be placed ahead \u2026 ultimately, this could lead to much higher level of pollution and carbon emissions (than) before the pandemic,\u201d Ottaro told\u00a0<em>CNS<\/em>. \u201cHowever, there is also an opportunity to take a different trajectory and ensure our economies in a green way, an eco-friendly way.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ottaro said the pandemic has not stopped the global climate crisis, and its effects were making it difficult to respond to the disease. <a href=\"https:\/\/cruxnow.com\/church-in-africa\/2020\/05\/keep-environment-central-during-pandemic-recovery-says-young-african\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of an African network for young Catholics warned against prioritizing economic interests over social and environmental concerns as nations work to recover from the COVD-19 pandemic. Allen Ottaro,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}