MPs are being urged to sign up to a parliamentary early day motion calling on the UK government to urge the European Union to take a much stronger stand in tackling climate change.
As Barack Obama said that time had run out to secure a legally binding climate deal at the Copenhagen summit in December, hunger strikers around the world reached the tenth day of a fast to 'wake the world up to reality'.
The climate-change campaign needs a sense of can-do enthusiasm, says Giles Fraser. It would be really something if faith leaders were able to help replace gloomy defeatism with a broader version of something Christians call hope.
The Wave, a visual protest being organised by the Stop Climate Chaos coalition, promises to be the UK's biggest-ever demonstration in support of international environmental action to combat climate change.
Resettlement of people displaced by the consequences of climate change was highlighted as a major concern for churches at a gathering of ecumenical representatives from Asia and the Pacific region.
Global church representatives gather in New York City from 15 November to press three issues at the United Nations: peoples being displaced by climate change, indigenous rights and Colombia's protracted internal conflict.
The UK and Ireland Nuclear Free Local Authorities expressed ‘dismay’ yesterday at the Government’s announcement to develop as many as 15 new nuclear power stations.
New government plans to clean up coal power stations are too weak to ensure that the UK keeps its promises to cut carbon emissions, Christian Aid said yesterday
British Muslims and Christians aged 18-25 are uniting to urge the UK government to press for significant progress in tackling climate change at the international summit due in Copenhagen next month.
Leaders of nine major faiths have presented 60 ideas for lessening carbon emissions to the United Nations after the Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, singled out the religious community as key in fighting climate change.
The UK government came under fire today in a new report revealing that the current climate finance proposals likely to dominate the weekend’s G20 talks will increase third world debt.
The Church of England has used a meeting of global faith leaders and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to launch an environmental strategy for the next seven years.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on political leaders today to join the world’s faiths and the United Nations in taking bold steps to address dangerous climate change.
The Church of Scotland takes its climate change message onto the world stage tomorrow, as officials prepare to address Ban Ki-Moon, the UN Secretary General, and the Duke of Edinburgh.
Catholic agency Progressio has told senior faith leaders from across the UK that poor and marginalised communities in the developing world are a vital “part of the solution” in tackling climate change.