themes
environment and
climate change
Climate change has become an issue of major importance in the media and across the political spectrum.
- Do the churches - or individual Christians - have a particular role to play in regard to climate change and the environment?
- Is climate change due to our lack of proper care for God's created world?
- As climate change is having a disproportionate effect on many of the poorest parts of the world, to what extent is this a justice issue?
These and other similar questions are challenging churches both to reflect on environmental issues from a theological point of view and to develop programmes of practical action. This is of particular importance in the run up to the Copenhagen Climate Summit in December 2009.
News and events
To read the latest Christian responses to environmental issues, see news and events. We also list details of last year's United Nations Climate Change Conferences and the reactions of the churches and other Christian organisations. You can also keep track of the UK Climate Change Bill.
Resources
To explore the other substantial amount of material already available from churches, agencies and groups, related to the environment and global warming, see links. For resources for Creation Time 2008 see Hope for Creation and for Creation Time 2009 see Creation in Crisis.
We also cover environmental issues in our Church and Society pages, including details of the Environmental Issues Network.
Environment and climate change is one of three themes on which Churches Together in Britain and Ireland is focussing and for which it will be developing resources.
Details of the sermon and study resources that will be available for download for Creation Time 2009.
What the churches are saying about green issues, including climate change talks and legislation