Climate Change
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Facilitator: Marijke van Duin, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | climate@ecen.org |
The climate change working group addresses one of the most crucial environmental issues facing humanity. Many parts of the world are facing serious disruptions caused by climate change. Its challenges strike deep into our society and lifestyles. Climate experts say we need a steep and swift global reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. Yet governments disagree about reductions of barely a tenth of what is needed. Find out in these pages what ECEN, in collaboration with other church organisations, is doing to promote action and raise awareness of these crucial issues.
Key documents
CLIMATE CHANGE DOSSIER (.pdf, 1MB) (2001) lays out the issues, challenges and theological perspectives on climate change. It provides the foundational document for the updates below. The dossier is available in English or German
Latest News
News archive
Visit the climate change archive for older news
Conferences
Previous conferences are available in the Climate Change Archive
Other material from the network
Older posts are available in the Climate Change Archive
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World Council of Churches Climate Change Programme
ECEN is involved with the World Council of Churches Climate Change Programme which is part of its wider WCC Ecumenical Earth Programme, www.wcc-coe.org/wcc/what/jpc/ecology.html
Older posts are available in the Climate Change Archive
-->Useful websites on climate change:
We work closely with the World Council of Churches Climate Change programme. Sign up for their email updates at www.oikoumene.org
Copenhagen, COP 15, en.cop15.dk
EU documents at ec.europa.eu
Climate Action Network Europe, www.climnet.org
Interfaith Manifesto on Climate Change
Thematic work
- CLIMATE CHANGE - Church engagement with the science, politics and injustice of climate change
- CREATION TIME - Information, worship and actions to help you celebrate Creation Time in September
- ECO-MANAGEMENT - Practical action to reduce your church's environmental footprint
- EDUCATION - Encouraging an environmental perspective in seminaries, Sunday schools and throughout the church
- NATURE - Making your church more friendly for wildlife and biodiversity
- MOBILITY - Reducing the impact of our travelling
- THEOLOGY - Making the connection between environmental crisis and faith in all the churches of Europe
- WATER - working with the World Council of Churches to tackle the global water crisis and prevent injustice
