Churches Together in Britain and Ireland

Churches Together in Britain and Ireland

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environment and
climate change

united nations
climate change conference

The United Nations Climate Change Conference, held in Bali in December 2007, led to the adoption of the Bali roadmap which charts the course for a new negotiating process, to be concluded by 2009, to produce a post-2012 international agreement on climate change.

Details of the decisions reached can be found on the UN Climate Change Conference web site link to external website

Below are some of the responses from the churches, Christian agencies and campaign groups before and after the conference:

17 December 2007
Joint Public Issues Team press release:
Governments must do more: Churches give guarded welcome to Bali Climate Change Conference (PDF)

15 December 2007
Tearfund's response:
Climate Talks: ‘Road map missing vital signpost' link to external website

14 December 2007
Christian Aid's response:
Bali agreement: deeply flawed link to external website

14 December 2007
Statement from the World Council of Churches (WCC):
This far and no further: Act fast and act now! link to external website

11 December 2007
Ecumenical delegation at the conference (WCC):
Churches want to see a new paradigm on climate change link to external website

10 December 2007
Campaign Against Climate Change Rally 2007:
Report from Independent Catholic News link to external website
Photos from Christian Ecology Link link to external website

3 December 2007
Joint letter from church leaders (Evangelical Church in Germany):
Transform the relationship with each other and with the natural world link to external website

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