environment - archive
environment and climate change
current issues
Comment
31 December 2007Archbishop of Canterbury's New Year message -
God 'doesn't do waste':
Full text on the Archbishop of Canterbury's web site
Video on YouTube
Resources
3 January 2008The Methodist Relief and Development fund has announced a new Bible Study Pack for Lent and beyond:
This Lent, don’t just change your light-bulbs, change your life (PDF)
Events
12 January 2008Life on Earth conference
Organised by Christians Aware, it addresses the urgent need for people of all the world faiths to work at their contribution to arrest the rapidly increasing crisis arising from climate change and the growth of poverty. All Saints Pastoral Centre, London Colney, near St. Albans.
19 January 2008
What is the world coming to? Ecological crisis and Christian hope
A day conference at Redcliffe College, Gloucester, organised in conjunction with the John Ray Initiative, which focuses on several themes that express the relevance of eschatology (Christian expectations).
19 January 2008
Hope Rising
'Climate Challenge Festival' at Exeter Cathedral to highlight the urgency of the situation for the world's most vulnerable countries and communities.
18 February - 14 March 2008
Hope for Planet Earth
A national tour explaining the science behind climate change from a Christian perspective, organised by Tearfund, A Rocha, John Ray Initiative, The Faraday Institute and Share Jesus International.
United Nations Climate Change Conference
3-14 December 200717 December 2007
Joint Public Issues Team press release:
Governments must do more: Churches give guarded welcome to Bali Climate Change Conference (PDF)
15 December 2007
Tearfund's response:
Climate Talks: ‘Road map missing vital signpost'
14 December 2007
Christian Aid's response:
Bali agreement: deeply flawed
14 December 2007
Statement from the World Council of Churches (WCC):
This far and no further: Act fast and act now!
11 December 2007
Ecumenical delegation at the conference (WCC):
Churches want to see a new paradigm on climate change
10 December 2007
Campaign Against Climate Change Rally 2007:
Report from Independent Catholic News
Photos from Christian Ecology Link
3 December 2007
Joint letter from church leaders (Evangelical Church in Germany):
Transform the relationship with each other and with the natural world
UK Climate Change Bill
Currently being considered by the House of Lords. For more details see
Operation Noah:
Climate Change Bill - Change of Parliamentary Procedure
You can also read the full Bill and amendments, plus track its progress:
Parliament web site
Green Church Awards
The first-ever Church Times Green Church Awards ceremony was held on 19th November 2007 at St Mary-le-Bow church in the City of London. The Awards scheme, first announced in February 2007, was conceived by the Church Times, which then worked with a number of leading Christian agencies in the field of environmental action to make awards in six different categories. Holy Trinity, Cleeve, won the overall first prize as Green Church of the Year for its range of environmental activities. Full information about the scheme is available at www.greenchurchawards.org
Climate change and human security
The Churches Together International Affairs Network recently discussed climate change from the perspective of human security. A number of briefing papers are available relating to this:
CTBI International Affairs network update
Included there is also a paper written for the 2007 Oxford Institute of Methodist Theological Studies: Deceiving Ourselves - How we fail to act on our knowledge about climate change.
