Our responsibility

The climate emergency is fundamentally unjust. Those who are least culpable, the global poor and future generations, will be most impacted by it. The World Health Organisation predicts that between 2030 and 2050, climate change is expected to cause approximately 250,000 deaths annually from malnutrition, malaria, diarrhoea, and heat stress. It suggests that children, particularly those living in global poverty, are amongst those most vulnerable.

.As members of the Anglican communion, we have learned how climate change is already impacting the Global South. What we, in this country, perceive as a future threat is for them, a lived reality. We are the Body of Christ; when one suffers, we all suffer. We are called to stand in solidarity with our brothers and sisters. The ecological crisis is a humanitarian one that relates not only to how we relate to the natural world but how we love one another. Against this backdrop, familiar words from our scriptures urge us to act. How can we claim to love our neighbour, hunger and thirst for righteousness, or be good news to the poor yet fail to make addressing climate change a priority?

General Synod have voted  for the whole of the Church of England to achieve net zero carbon by 2030.  The vote recognised that the global climate emergency is a crisis for God’s creation and a fundamental injustice.

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