Opening Ceremony

• Opening Prayer:
  • Group of Children
  • Paolo Matterazzo, Prophetic Economy/Nomadelfia
• Words of Welcome
  • H.E. Cardinal Peter K.A. Turkson, Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development (DSSUI)
• Opening Remarks: The Importance of Laudato Si’ Today
  • H.E. Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State
• Happy Anniversary Laudato Si’! Impact and Challenges of the Encyclical
  • Chair: Delia Gallagher, CNN
  • A Representative Panel of Young People from different continents:
    • Africa: Mr. Allen Ottaro, Catholic Youth Network for Environmental Sustainability in Africa, Kenya
    • Americas: Mr. Delio Siticonatzi, Pueblo Ashaninca, REPAM
    • Asia: Mr. Macson Almeida, Don Bosco Green Alliance, India
    • Europe: Ms. Laura Menendez, Manos Unidas
    • Oceania: Ms. Jade Hameister, North Pole explorer, Australia
• The Urgency to Save Our One and Only Common Home: 1.5°C rise and no more
  • Hon. John Gummer, Lord Deben, Chairman of Independent Committee on Climate Change, Great Britain
  • Ms. Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner, Poet, Marshall Islands

Plenary Session

• Chair: Marta Rodriguez, Responsible for Women’s Section, Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life
• Opening Remarks
  • Msgr. Antoine Camilleri, Under-Secretary for Relations with States, Secretariat of State
• Presentation of the Conference Programme
  • Fr. Joshtrom Isaac Kureethadam, DSSUI
• Climate Change–A Last Call for the Planet
  • Prof. Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Director of the Postdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
• Global Stocktake–How is the Paris Agreement going?
  • Dr. Patricia Espinosa, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
• Integral Ecology–How Ecological Degradation is Affecting the Poorest
  • Mr. Naderev Saño, Greenpeace Southeast Asia

Parallel Sessions

• Group 1: Climate Change: Are We Hearing the Cry of the Poor and the Cry of the Earth?
• Group 2: OIKO-NOMIA: Serving Our Common Home?
• Group 3: Churches and Religions: On the Path to Ecological Conversion?
• Group 4: Indigenous and Young People: Are Their Voices Heard?

Inauguration of the Laudato Si’ Exhibition

• Brief Comments by Dr. Tebaldo Vinciguerra, DSSUI
• Blessing by H.E. Cardinal Peter K.A. Turkson

Plenary Session

• Chair & Opening Message
  • Msgr. Bruno Marie Duffé, Secretary of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development
• The Natural World as the Gospel (Good News) of Creation
  • H.E. John Zizioulas, Metropolitan of Pergamon, Greece
• The Economic Reasons to Act and to Act Immediately
  • Prof. Nicholas Stern, London School of Economics, Great Britain
• Integral Ecology for Integral Human Flourishing
  • Prof. Celia Deane-Drummond, Professor in Theology and Director of the Center forTheology, Science and Human Flourishing at the University of Notre Dame, and SeniorResearch Fellow at Campion Hall, Oxford University

Cultural evening

Audience with Pope Francis

Plenary Session

• Opening Prayer
• Opening Remarks
  • Dr. Erik Solheim, Executive Director, UN Environment (presented by Mr. Charles McNeill)
• Chair: Kitty Van der Heijden, Director Africa and Europe, World Resources Institute
• Eco-justice: Responding to the Cry of the Earth and the Cry of the Poor in the Light of CST
  • Cardinal Pedro Ricardo Barreto Jimeno, Archbishop of Huancayo, Peru
• Global Ecological Conversion: Building a Massive Movement to Protect Our Common Home
  • Mr. Bill McKibben, Founder of 350.org, USA
• Sustainable Economy: Time for a “Marshall Plan” for our Common Home
  • Mr. Pierre Larrouturou, Spokesperson of Pacte Finance Climat pour l’Europe, France
• Concluding Remarks: Dr. Michał Kurtyka, President of COP24, Poland

Parallel Sessions

• Group 1: Climate Change: Raising ambition towards COP 24
• Group 2: OIKO-NOMIA – Moving towards a New Economy: A Message to Bali
• Group 3: Churches and Religions: Towards the Season of Creation
• Group 4: Indigenous and Young People: Towards the respective Synods of 2018 and 2019

Participatory Action Plans for the Care of Our Common Home

• Chair: Fr. Augusto Zampini, DSSUI and Ms. Chiara Martinelli, CIDSE
• Reports from the groups on lines of action for the following events:
  • Season of Creation– Faith Communities
  • IMF and World Bank Annual Meetings–Economics and Finance
  • Synod on Youth and Synod on the Amazon–Youth and Intergenerational Justice, Indigenous Peoples and Forests
  • Global Climate Action Summit–Climate Change and Civil Society
  • COP24–Politics and Advocacy

Closing Session

• Acting-Together and Now!
  • H.E. Cardinal Charles Bo, S.D.B., Archbishop of Yangon, Myanmar
  • TBC (will let you know asap)
• Presentation of Good Practices for the Care of Our Common Home
• Laudato Si’ and Education: Tarumitra, a movement of 2000 schools in North India
  • Fr. Robert Athickal, S.J., Director of Tarumitra, India with two students
  • Response: Monica Conmee, CAFOD
• Laudato Si’ and Finance: Ethical investments in an Era of Climate Change
  • Rev. Henrik Grape, Climate Change Coordinator, World Council of Churches
  • Response: Latin America
• Laudato Si’ and Advocacy: Taking Climate Change Seriously
  • Mr. Joseph Sapati Moeono-Kolio, Pacific Climate Warriors
  • Response: Fr. Rigobert Minani, S.J., Réseau ecclésial du Bassin du Congo (REBAC)
• Concluding Remarks
  • H.E. Cardinal Peter K.A. Turkson