We have been informed that the Fifth United Nations Environmental Assembly will be held in Nairobi a year from now (22-26 February 2021). Here’s a bit from a faith-oriented UN newsletter: Are you ready for the fifth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly that will take place in Nairobi […]
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US based network members, particularly those on the East Coast may be interested in this event. More information to come; check the Facebook event here. Breakfast hosts are the Evangelical Environmental Network, Young Evangelicals for Climate Action (YECA), and the National Association of Evangelicals. Cosponsors include Care of Creation, the […]
The WEA Creation Care Task Force is holding a webinar on Living the Change: Making Sustainable Lifestyle Choices for a Flourishing World on Jan. 17. The webinar will cover the purpose and goals of Living the Change, why it is a useful and important resource for responding to the climate […]
April 20, 2020 marks 50 years since the first Earth Day. That first event was primarily a US-focused awareness raising campaign that involved millions of people and thousands of schools, universities and communities across the nation. (Ed Brown was there! Were you? Tell us about it!) Earth Day 50 will […]
How cities develop over the next twenty to thirty years of rapid global urbanization, especially in Africa and Asia, will be critical to our global ecological future. For this reason the WEA Creation Care Task Force has engaged with UN-Habitat since 2013 and has sent delegations to Habitat III, the […]
Evangelicals using 20% clean energy by 2025 – we can do it! More about WEA’s Project 20.’25 here.
One of the most important things you can do to fight climate change according to Dr. Katharine Hayhoe, the WEA’s new Climate Ambassador, is to talk about it. For this reason one of Living the Change’s main programs is designed for you to host a meal and an encouraging conversation […]
Saturday 7 December a number of organizations will be cooperating to bring “Climate Change: COP25 and the Challenge for Our Churches” to the churches in the Madrid areas (and anyone else who would like to attend). This event is a wonderful example of partnership in the evangelical family for the […]
Twenty-three members of the Canada/US and Latin America regions of the LWCCN are in Madrid, Spain these next two weeks for the latest UN climate summit known as COP25. While they are official UN observers in the on-going negotiations of the Paris Agreement, they are primarily gathered as participants in […]
It’s easy to be discouraged about climate change these days. But there are some good things happening. This list from Climate Caretakers is encouraging and worth reviewing: Led by Greta Thunberg, a very inspiring Swedish teenager, a dynamic and widespread youth movement is finally rising to lead the way on climate […]