Jean Pierre Ribaut

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Jean Pierre Ribaut (* 1935 , Switzerland ) is a Swiss ecologist and ornithologist (biologist), diplomat and Roman Catholic deacon. Until 1998, JP Ribaut was director of the nature conservation and environmental department of the Council of Europe , which since 1970 has been a pioneer of effective national and international environmental policy. As a deacon and advisor to the CCEE , delegate of the Holy See and as a member of Pax Christi France, he has been supporting the greening of European churches, especially the Roman Catholic Church, since 1989.

Life

Ornithology and Ecology at the University of Lausanne

Jean Pierre Ribaut has been involved in ornithology since his youth and was already the leading figure on the Cou and Bretolet bird migration passes together with Gérard de Crousaz and Michel Godel in the 1950s. There they introduced countless ornithologists from German-speaking Switzerland to the field of observation. After receiving his doctorate in ornithology in 1964 (Dr. sc. Biology), Ribaut was a lecturer at the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the University of Lausanne and held a. a. Lectures on vertebrate ecology.

Council of Europe - European nature and environmental protection

In 1969 he moved to the Council of Europe as an international diplomat, where he was director of nature conservation and the environment from 1969 to 1998. In this role he was u. a. responsible for:

  • promoting nature conservation and environmental protection and sustainable development in Europe;
  • the award of the European Diploma for Protected Areas ;
  • the implementation of the European Nature Conservation Year 1970 and 1995;
  • the development and implementation of the Bern Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Wildlife and Their Natural Habitats;
  • the "The Pan-European Biological and Landscape Diversity Strategy";
  • and the publication (partly editor-in-chief) of Naturopa , the environmental magazine of the Council of Europe published in four languages.

JP Ribaut participated in numerous meetings of the Committee of Ministers, the Parliamentary Assembly and Standing Committees of the Council of Europe, as well as a delegate at international environmental conferences and the like. a. United Nations Conference on the Human Environment , 1972 in Stockholm and the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development , 1992 in Rio de Janeiro.

Church, ecumenism and religions - preservation of creation

JP Ribaut has been a volunteer deacon since 1988. As a deacon, he has been advising the Council of European Bishops' Conferences on environmental and sustainability issues since 1989 , represented the Holy See at international environmental conferences and was President of the Pax Christi Commission for Peace, Justice and the Integrity of Creation from Pax Christi France, founded under René Coste .

" For us environmentalists it is clear that all animal life deserves respect in view of its ecological function in nature and for us Christians because they are creatures of God. (Jean Pierre Ribaut." La terre et nous, c'est pour la vie ". 2012 )

In 1995 he was appointed academician and first president of the Franz von Assisi Academy for the Protection of the Earth eV at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt . He was primarily responsible for the preparation in the area of ​​sustainability for the European Ecumenical Assembly in 1989 and 1997 and made a significant contribution to the greening of the European churches, especially the Roman Catholic Church, and to the conciliar process for justice, peace and the integrity of creation in Europe. He was a pioneer for the dialogue between religions and cultures on sustainability, in particular by leading five interreligious conferences funded by the Fondation Charles Léopold Mayer pour le Progrès de l'Homme, Paris and the Goethe Foundation (Klingenthal Symposia) .

Since his retirement in 1998 he has represented the Holy See in the meetings of the Council of Europe for the Bern Convention and the European Landscape Convention and works as a permanent deacon in the Archdiocese of Bordeaux in the parish of Pauillac .

Publications (selection)

  • Jean-Pierre Ribaut (1953): La migration d'automne 1952 au col de Cou. Nos Oiseaux 22: 82-90.
  • Jean-Pierre Ribaut (1954): La migration d'automne 1953 au col de Cou. Nos Oiseaux 22: 196-203.
  • Jean-Pierre Ribaut: Dynamique d'une population de Merles Noirs. Turdus merula L. 1964
  • Ribaut, Jean-Pierre: European Conservation Year. Culmination or Starting Point ?, in: Nature in Focus. Bulletin of the European Information Center for Nature Conservation, Summer 1970 (Special issue European Conversation Year), pp. 18-20.
  • Jean-Pierre Ribaut, Marie-José Del Rey (eds): The Earth Under Care: spiritual and cultural approaches to the challenges for a sustainable planet . The Klingenthal Appeal and contributions from the October 1995 Symposium. Paris et Lausanne, June 1997
  • René Coste , Jean-Pierre Ribaut: Les nouveaux horizons de l'écologie - Dans le sillage de Rio . Colloque organisé par Pax Christi , Centurion, Paris 1993, ISBN 2-227-31585-7
  • Council of Europa (Editor): Naturopa magazine . 6 languages
  • Ribaut, Jean-Pierre: Balance and perspective of the ecumenical process for the conservation of Creation in Europe: In: Francis of Assisi Academy (eds): Reader European Symposium. Eichstatt 1997
  • Ribaut, JP & Stappen, RK (eds) 1996. Christianity and Sustainable Europe. Eichstatt: Franz vom Assisi Academy for the protection of the earth.
  • Conference of European Churches (CEC) / Council of European Bishops' Conferences (CCEE) (ed.): Reconciliation - God's gift and source of new life. Documents of the Second European Ecumenical Assembly in Graz. - Graz: Verlag Styria, 1998. J & P 500 032.
  • Bourguinat, Elisabeth, and Jean-Pierre Ribaut. 2000. L'arbre et la forêt: du symbolisme culturel à ... l'agonie program. Proceedings of the Fourth Klingenthal Symposium (Klingenthal, France, September 22-26, 1999). Dossier pour un débat no.111, Editions Charles Léopold Mayer, Paris, France.
  • Bourguinat, Elisabeth, and Jean-Pierre Ribaut. 2003. Des animaux pour quoi faire? Approches interculturelles, interreligieuses, interdisciplinaires. Dossier pour un débat no.132, Editions Charles Léopold Mayer, Paris, France. 159 p.
  • Caïs, Marie-France, Marie-José Del Rey and Jean-Pierre Ribaut (eds.). 1999. L'eau et la vie: enjeux, perspectives et visions interculturelles. Proceedings of the Second Klingenthal Symposium: Water (Klingenthal, France, November 26-30, 1997). Dossier pour un débat no.97, Editions Charles Léopold Mayer, Paris, France.
  • Ribaut, Jean-Pierre and Marie-José Del Rey (réd.). 1997. L'Usufruit de la terre: courants spirituels et culturels face aux défis del la sauvegarde de la planète. L'Appel de Klingenthal et les apports du Colloque d'octobre 1995. Dossier pour un Débat 73. La Librairie FPH, Fondation Charles Léopold Mayer pour le Progrès de l'Homme, Paris and Lausanne. Janvier 1997. 108 p.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/50265/1/526581956.pdf
  2. ^ Conference of European Churches (CEC) / Council of European Bishops' Conferences (CCEE) (ed.): Reconciliation - God's gift and source of new life. Documents of the Second European Ecumenical Assembly in Graz. - Graz: Verlag Styria, 1998.
  3. ^ Delegate of the Holy See. Council of Europe. Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats. 2010, p.37 Archive link ( Memento of the original from July 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ni.is
  4. ↑ Urs N. Glutz von Blotzheim: Ornithological research in the 20th century in Switzerland - a successful collaboration between experts and lay ornithologists. The Ornithological Observer / Volume 106 / Issue 1 / March 2009
  5. ^ Jean-Pierre Ribaut: "La terre et nous, c'est pour la vie". Un témoignage de vie par Jean-Pierre Ribaut. http://www.paxchristi.cef.fr/v2/jean-pierre-ribaut-la-terre-et-nous-cest-pour-la-vie/
  6. ↑ Schulz, Thorsten (2006): The European Year of Conservation 1970 - Attempt at a Europe-wide environmental campaign, WZB Discussion Paper, No. P 2006-007. http://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/50265/1/526581956.pdf
  7. ^ JP Ribaut: How the Bern Convention came into being. In: The 25 years of the Bern Convention Naturopa No. 101/2004, page 4
  8. ↑ http://www.eea.europa.eu/policy-documents/pan-european-biological-and-landscape
  9. ↑ Founding and academy members (1995-) . Francis of Assisi Academy for the Protection of the Earth. Retrieved May 19, 2019.
  10. ^ Bron Taylor: The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature. 2006, p.964 ff.
  11. ↑ L'appel de Klingenthal - 1995. http://www.faape.org/SymposiumsdeKlingenthal.1995-2001.pdf
  12. ↑ http://bordeaux.annuaire-eglise.net/getxml.php?a=bordeaux&get=unitorg&id=279
personal data
SURNAME Ribaut, Jean Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss biologist, diplomat and deacon
DATE OF BIRTH 1935