Canadian church campaign pressures oil company on climate change
(April 02)
On March 4 2002, the EU has decided to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. This is very good news! Hopefully it will stimulate other developed countries to do the same. That will be necessary, because there is still a long way to go before the Kyoto Protocol can enter into force. Let us hope that especially Canada and Russia will follow the example of the EU and not that of the USA and Australia. The USA already withdrew from the Kyoto Protocol, and Australia might follow. These two countries recently made their own agreement on bringing down greenhouse gas emissions, but this agreement is by no means sufficient. As Russia and Canada are now key-players, lobby work should focus there in order to try to get ratification of the Kyoto Protocol done before the World Summit on Sustainable Development (Johannesburg August/September).
For more information, see our Remarks on Seventh Session of the Conference of the Parties on Climate Change.
As before, a delegation of the World Council of Churches monitor the conferences. A member of ECEN has been included in the delegations. ECEN provided a special prayer at an Ecumenical Service on Sunday 19 November 2000 in The Hague. The service was broadcast live on the Internet. The webcast Internet site is: http://www.interpetto.nl/wcc.htm. ECEN also encouraged churches to join in an international e-mail campaign, named Climatevoice, hosted by Friends of the Earth Europe and organised by them, WWF, Greenpeace and a number of other organisations.
This page was last updated 19 November 2003
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