Faith communities and the UN Climate Action Summit 2019

By Christiana Figueres, via the UN and Church Times

“As we head towards the first big “Paris heartbeat” in 2020, when governments must come back with bigger, bolder commitments, the faith community again has a critical part to play in bringing stakeholders together to support governments.

It has been extremely encouraging to see that, since Paris, the faith community has been continually stepping up its own action efforts in this space — and, in particular, its leadership in the movement to disinvest from fossil fuels.