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
Shareholders of the oil giant ExxonMobil pushed through a resolution on climate change at the company’s AGM yesterday.
01 June 2017
More Church leaders have added their voice to the chorus of welcome for last weekend’s announcement that both China and the US have ratified the Paris Agreement on climate change.
07 September 2016
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
The Church Commissioners for England have been ranked joint tenth out of 500 of the world’s largest investment funds and given an AAA rating over their performance in tackling climate change. The list was produced by the Asset Owners Disclosure Project (AODP) for its 2016 Report on the world top 500 investors.
03 May 2016
The Diocese of California in the US-based Episcopal Church held an EcoConfirmation day to mark both Earth Day and the signing, at UN headquarters in New York, of the COP-21 climate change agreement. The event included a Cosmic Walk – a structured meditation on the history of creation.
27 April 2016
Capitalizing on momentum from the recent COP21 accord in Paris was the focus of a meeting of the World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary, the Revd Dr Olav Fykse Tveit and the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd Justin Welby, at Lambeth Palace in London on 16 December.
18 December 2015
The Anglican Communion Environmental Network (ACEN) offers its reflections on the Paris Agreement on climate change using the words of Nelson Mandela: “After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb”.
18 December 2015
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
Negotiations at the UN-led Climate Change talks in Paris (COP21) will continue up to and beyond the wire, with a final agreement not expected until tomorrow – the day after the talks were due to come to an end.
11 December 2015