Prayer Assignment “Do two work together unless they have agreed to do so?” Amos 3:3 So often we imagine we can accomplish much on our own, yet God calls us to walk in unity and friendship. There is a lot of conversation about collaboration in COP26 – because they have found it works so much better to […]
Monthly Archives: November 2021
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Transportation Day (Catriona Jenkins, Kari Miller and Norman Wirzba) Today is Transportation Day here at COP26. The importance of this theme cannot be emphasized enough; as much as 30% of greenhouse gases are produced by the transportation sector. Most people live within and depend upon a global economy in which […]
1) Travel, tourism, and transportation were the primary focus of Wednesday’s discussions. The shock to the tourism industry presented by COVID-19 may also offer an invitation to reimagine climate friendly norms in the industry. “The travel and tourism sector has a big stake in decarbonization because a destroyed planet serves no […]
Prayer and Progress There is a sense of progress being made with several negotiated agreements having been made already. There is still a long way to go in dozens of different policy areas, with intense activity by advisors and diplomats from every nation now that the heads of state have […]
A Daily Update from the CCOP Program Caroline Pomeroy, Rob Samulack, Michael Jemphrey What makes the Christian Climate Observers’ Program (CCOP) distinctive? Over the two weeks of COP26, 40 people aged between 19 and 79 (median age around 25) from USA, Canada, UK, France, India, Macedonia, New Zealand, Australia, Philippines, […]
This prayer comes from Plant with Purpose and was written by Ashlee Grishaber: Loving God, Heavenly Father, Creator, Thank you for all You have made in the world—for the rich biodiversity and beauty found in the whole community of creation. We lament over degraded ecosystems from wetlands to grasslands to […]
Our friends at Christian Climate Observers Program have sent this summary of yesterday’s events at COP26: Daily Update Jeffrey Lee, Phil Summerton, and Flo Wright Today, CCOP participants had the opportunity to meet with Canadian Member of Parliament Mike Morrice, a recently elected member of the Green Party. During this […]
The Guardian’s Seascape: the state of our oceans is worth your time with a lot of in depth and instructive articles “drawing attention to the dramatic changes taking place in our oceans, and the innovations under way to tackle them.” But this article on winners of their Ocean Photographer of […]
This year’s John Stott Lecture will (of course) be held online. This means that many of us who are not in or able to travel to London have the opportunity to join in. And we need to, because this year’s lecture is an important one: Dr. Laura Meitzner Yoder, who […]
There are all kinds of technologies, from carbon capture and sequestration to artificial trees, being proposed to deal with the climate crisis. But this raises an important question: is more technology the best way to tackle a problem that has been created by technology? Our friends at A Rocha have […]