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By Umar Manzoor Shah, UCA News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a sea of negotiators, lobbyists, and policy experts at the UN Climate Change Conference, Lisa Sullivan stands out for saying it as it is: \u201cThis is no longer an environmental problem. It\u2019s a human problem.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sullivan, a returned lay missioner now working for the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns in global advocacy and education, is attending COP30 in Belem, Brazil<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe communities I worked with were on the front lines of the climate crisis,\u201d she told UCA News, adding her realization of this \u201chuman problem\u201d comes from \u201cliving through years of drought and seeing people go hungry.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her journey with the Maryknoll family spans over 40 years, including more than two decades in the parched fields of Venezuela and El Salvador.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now based in Washington, D.C., her work is spread across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, addressing the needs of communities that bear the brunt of climate change<\/a> despite contributing little to its causes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI saw farmers who couldn\u2019t plant because the rains stopped coming. I saw hunger return to places that once had enough. It made me take a broader look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur missioners are witnesses to climate migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border and drought-affected farmers in Africa. Climate change is no longer abstract. It\u2019s the daily reality of our mission<\/a>,\u201d she noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Sullivan, the path forward begins with accountability. Amid the technical jargon and complex frameworks of COP negotiations, the lay missioner stresses moral clarity on the centrality of ecological debt<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe bottom line is simple: stop burning, start paying. Stop exploiting, start repairing,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe rich nations owe it to the rest of the world\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

To stop burning fossil fuels is, for her, the number one issue. And those who profited from them must start paying those affected by it, what Pope Francis<\/a> called ecological debt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe rich nations owe it to the rest of the world,\u201d Sullivan said. \u201cPope Francis explained it best. It\u2019s like we\u2019re in a burning house. Those who set the fire, the industrialized nations that built their wealth by burning fossil fuels, must pay those who are choking on the smoke without doing any wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lay missioner, along with Maryknoll Father Patrick Okok<\/a>, is at COP30 to bring the voices of affected communities to the notice of experts and policymakers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year\u2019s COP has seen an unprecedented presence of Church leaders and faith-based groups, especially from the Global South.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sullivan<\/a> describes the experience as \u201cdeeply inspiring.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMany bishops from Africa, Asia, and Latin America are here, bringing their collective statement on climate justice<\/a> to the table. Those are the voices we want leaders to hear.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Voices of faith at COP30<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For faith actors, she explained, the message is not just technical but moral.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFaith communities speak a language people understand. We appeal to conscience. Politicians may ignore science, but they respond to moral conviction. That\u2019s why our presence here matters.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Maryknoll movement (composed of priests, brothers, religious women and laypeople) has long focused on empowering poor communities through direct action. Their projects range from agroecological farming to environmental justice in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Closer to home, at their respective headquarters in Ossining, New York, the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers<\/a> installed solar panels<\/a> that benefit low-income neighbors, and the Maryknoll Sisters<\/a> created an ecological preserve<\/a> on their property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sullivan believes that faith-based organizations have a crucial role in fixing the broken chain of climate finance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe way climate funding currently works is almost absurd. Rich countries lend money to the poor for a crisis they created<\/a>. It\u2019s as if the arsonist charges the victims for water,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Climate finance should not come as loans. It should be grants., she added. And faith organizations are uniquely capable of delivering funds directly, transparently, and quickly to communities that need them most.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sullivan agrees with what critics often say, that U.N. climate talks<\/a> are detached from reality, but refuses to dismiss the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYes, COPs are imperfect. But they are the only spaces where every country, big or small, sits together,\u201d she said. \u201cThis is where Vanuatu can speak face-to-face with the United States. That\u2019s powerful. We can\u2019t abandon that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For her, hope is not na\u00efve \u2014 it\u2019s a duty. \u201cIf you measure progress in lives, not numbers, you see that action has made a difference. It\u2019s not enough, it\u2019s not on time, but it\u2019s something. We must keep pushing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She believes faith communities could be the tipping point and recalls what the deputy head of COP30<\/a> said after receiving a statement from Global South bishops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe said something powerful: that faith actors have a moral argument that politicians cannot ignore. Technical experts can talk data, but faith speaks to conscience. That\u2019s where real change<\/a> begins.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While she celebrates the growing faith presence, Sullivan also sees missed opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019ll be honest. Catholics still have room to grow in interfaith collaboration,\u201d she admitted. \u201cWe tend to work in our own lanes. But when faiths unite, our influence multiplies. We can learn a lot from other traditions that have been engaged in this struggle longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cClimate change doesn\u2019t discriminate by religion. Neither should our response,\u201d she emphasized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click here<\/a> to listen to Lisa Sullivan\u2019s interview with UCA News.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Featured image: Women look on after a flotilla carrying Indigenous representatives from across Latin America arrived in Belem Nov. 9, 2025, ahead of the U.N. Climate Change Conference, or COP30, in Brazil. A delegation of cardinals, bishops and lay activists gives the Brazil church a strong presence at COP30, taking place Nov. 10-21 in Bel\u00e9m. (OSV News\/Adriano Machado, Reuters)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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