WCC Climate Change Update #49
The UN Climate Conference (COP15) in Copenhagen has concluded with a frail and deeply flawed agreement that has been denounced by many of the nations most vulnerable to climate change. Read more
Archive for January, 2010
Climate change: how theology can help save the world
What does the Bible say about climate change? What are the theological insights churches can offer to a world facing an unprecedented ecological crisis? Read this World Council of Churches feature article.
Living Hope: Green Churches, Green Schools
“Living Hope: Green Churches, Green Schools” is a day conference being held at Great Missenden parish church and school on the 6th of March. It is supported by A Rocha, Bucks County Council, CAFOD, Christian Aid, Christian Concern for One World, The Diocese of Oxford, Earth Abbey, Reading CEL Group, Tearfund and Traidcraft, as well as the parish church of St Peter and St Paul Great Missenden and the Great Missenden CE Combined School. (more…)
Want to be a youth advisor to the Minister for Climate Change?
The Government’s department of Energy and Climate Change have just launched a survey to ask you how they can best listen to the views and ideas of young people on the issue of climate change. Take part
Go Green Week Schools and Colleges Guide Launched!
The brand spanking new Go Green Week guide from People & Planet for schools and colleges is here! Taking place just before Valentine’s Day, Go Green Week 2010 is all about feeling the love for the climate. Download guide.
Caribbean book is a cry for life
A new publication on economic and ecological justice by church-based economists and justice advocates in the Caribbean region is a call to action for churches worldwide according to the Guyanese editor of the book.
“The cry for life resounds throughout scripture,” says Patricia Sheerattan-Bisnauth. “The Bible is a record of God speaking through prophets and calling the faithful to challenge injustice in the world around them.”
Sheerattan-Bisnauth, who heads-up social justice programming for the World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC), made her comments in announcing the publication on 18 January of an educational resource guide called Power to Resist and Courage to Hope: Caribbean Churches Living out the Accra Confession. Read more
The Conference of European Churches’ response to the Copenhagen summit
The Central Committee of the CEC meeting in Geneva from 16 to 19 December 2009 expresses the deep regret that the summit did not result in an ambitious and legally binding agreement adequately responding to climate change. Download the full statement.
John Ray Initiative Newsletter No 22- Copenhagen Special
Copenhagen– before, during and after
The last few months have been very busy ones for many of us involved in JRI. Undoubtedly the main reason has been the COP15 UN Climate Change Conference which was held from 7th to 18th December 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Read more
Show brings sea level rise impact into focus
The devastating impact of climate change on people living at the mouth of the river Ganges is being brought powerfully into focus in a new exhibition by a Tearfund photographer. Read more
Creation Challenge ~ January 2010
Creation Challenge newsletter
Happy New Year and Welcome to the January edition of Creation Challenge!
I hope this finds you wrapped up warm and prepared for the days of ‘Frozen Britain’ the BBC news keeps talking about to cheer us up! (more…)
