global warming

February 22, 2009

New book demands radical action from churches on climate change

The church must act on the destruction, poverty and injustice caused by climate change and face the theological challenges of global warming, says a new book by the head of theology at Christian Aid.
January 28, 2009

European climate change proposals do not add up, says Christian Aid

New European proposals for a global deal on climate change do not add up to a just or effective plan, the UK-based international development agency Christian Aid is warning.
January 13, 2009

Cardiff's children to lead campaign ahead of Copenhagen summit

A Lightship owned by Cardiff’s churches is being transformed into Noah’s Ark by the city’s children in a bid to tell UK leaders that they must act urgently to protect human and animal life on the planet.
January 12, 2009

UK's poorest will be hit hardest by climate change

The poorest in the UK will be hit hardest by climate change, a new report has warned although tackling climate change also offers huge opportunities for cutting poverty in the UK if global warming and poverty are tackled together.
December 18, 2008

Can we save the planet yet keep our freedoms?

Possibly the crucial world issue now and in the coming decades is global warming and environmental catastrophe.
December 15, 2008

Peru highlights West's global warming action challenge

A front-line worker tackling poverty in Peru has warned that without stronger climate change action from the West ‘millions of poor people will be abandoned to the escalating ravages of an unpredictable climate.’
December 12, 2008

Churches make impassioned plea for 'climate justice' at UN meeting

World churches are making a strong appeal for a much more principle-based approach to the planet's ecological challenges at the United Nations Climate Change Conference meeting in Poznan, Poland.
December 1, 2008

Churches call for crackdown on carbon emissions

The Baptist Union of Great Britain, the Methodist Church and the United Reformed Church have urged the Government to reduce Britain’s carbon emissions following Lord Turner’s report published today.
November 28, 2008

Campaigners lobby government over climate change

Campaigners from Christian aid agency Tearfund have handed a 10,000-strong petition to the government urging them to help poor people in the developing world adapt to the effects of climate change.
November 27, 2008

Pacific churches call for global solidarity on climate change

Christians from the Pacific islands have appealed for worldwide solidarity with regard to climate change, a question of life and death in their communities.