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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
There is going to be a lot of climate news over the next two weeks as COP26 gets under way. The conference opened in Glasgow a few hours ago, and in the next couple of days will move from ceremonial speeches to hard-core negotiating. No one knows how this one […]
Our friends at CCOP (Christian Climate Observers Program) recently told us about this effort to get people praying before and during the upcoming COP26 meetings in Glasgow, Scotland: Recently, several creation care organizations launched a campaign called #ClimateVigil. Together, they are calling millions of Christians around the world to pray […]