by Sean Reilly | Dec 16, 2007
“A road map missing a vital signpost”, was how aid agency Tearfund described the global deal on climate change struck at the UN conference in Bali on Saturday. Without explicit reference in the final document to the need for industrialised countries to cut carbon...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 10, 2007
The equivalent of a third of the world’s population has already been affected by weather-related disasters and this is set to soar because of climate change unless urgent international action is taken says a Christian aid agency. Tearfund says governments must commit...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 10, 2007
Church leaders and Christians from many denominations joined protest rallies in more than 50 cities around the world this weekend, calling on world leaders at the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali to effectively tackle the threat of global warming. In London, near...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 7, 2007
Christians of all denominations will unite in London tomorrow (Saturday) and join a national demonstration to demand that Britain’s representatives at Bali lead by example over climate change, by cutting Britain’s greenhouse gas emissions further and...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 5, 2007
The fight against climate change has been marked by broken promises and missed opportunities, say three European bishops in a letter to political leaders to mark the opening of UN-led talks on the Indonesian island of Bali this week. “Every person on earth, both...
