This website is best viewed with CSS and JavaScript enabled.

Home > Bp Nicholas Holtam

News Stories


Bp Nicholas Holtam

Bishop says UK government’s new climate change goal will benefit the poorest

A new goal to cut greenhouse gas emission in the UK to almost zero by 2050 has been welcomed by the C of E’s lead bishop on the environment.

14 June 2019

Anglicans around the world responded to the annual ecumenical Season of Creation

The annual Season of Creation, which ran from 1 September to 4 October was celebrated by Anglicans around the world in many different ways.

17 October 2018

Salisbury “service of cleansing and celebration” to be held following nerve agent incident

The Bishop of Salisbury will lead a service a month after Sergei and Yulia Skripal were poisoned by a nerve agent linked to Russia.

11 April 2018

Church leaders express regret over US climate change decision

Church leaders have expressed their regret over the decision by US President Donald Trump to withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change.

02 June 2017

Church leaders welcome US-Sino action on climate change

Church leaders from around the world have welcomed the announcement that the US and China have ratified the UN’s climate change agreement.

05 September 2016

Anglicans welcome "end to fossil fuel era"

Anglican bishops have welcomed this weekend’s international agreement at the climate change talks in Paris. Negotiators from around 200 countries have reached agreement on a far-reaching package of measures, which has been dubbed “the end of the fossil fuel era.”

14 December 2015

Week to go before UN climate talks start

The United Nations climate change conference – Cop21 – begins next week in Paris, and there will be a large Anglican and ecumenical presence at the two-week event to lobby for a fair deal for the world’s poorest people – those most affected by catastrophic changes in the world’s climate.

23 November 2015