Facilitator: Hans Diefenbacher, Heidelberg, Germany | ecomanagement@ecen.org

This working group has engaged over several years in the environmental evaluation of church buildings. It has worked systematically on aspects such as energy consumption and developed suggestions how the credibility of the churches' witness can be improved. – and also as to how expenditure for energy can be reduced. The group would be pleased to hear of examples of environmental management projects from churches around Europe.

Key documents

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT IN THE EUROPEAN CHURCHES (.pdf, 1MB), a brochure of advice and examples on how to make your church more environmentally friendly.

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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