Prayer Guide
Glance at the sun. See the moon and the stars. Gaze at the beauty of the Earth’s greenings. Now, think.”
Hildegard von Bingen
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Friday 24th October
A new study found that 75 streams in Alaska’s Brooks Range have turned orange due to thawing permafrost, which releases metals like iron, aluminum[sic] and cadmium that exceed U.S. Environmental Protection Agency safety thresholds for aquatic life, writes Liz Kimbrough. The contamination threatens fish populations, with aluminum concentrations at one location reaching nearly five times the safe limit, and the study suggests this may help explain recent crashes in chum salmon returns that Indigenous communities depend on for food and income. The pollution flows hundreds of miles downstream to coastal communities like Kivalina, where residents who rely on traditional fishing face threats to food security as some tributaries of rivers like the Wulik have begun turning orange.
Saturday 25th October
Two-thirds (62%) of consumers believe companies are engaging in greenwashing – up from just a third in 2023, a new report on environmental sustainability has revealed… The Capgemini Research Institute report, “A world in balance 2025: Unlocking resilience and long-term value through environmental action,” concludes that most organisations say environmental sustainability is a core future-proofing strategy to drive long-term competitiveness, innovation and resilience. The research findings showed a widening credibility gap between brands and consumers, with scepticism around greenwashing rising sharply. Greenwashing misleads the public to believe an organisation is doing more to protect the environment than it actually is, either by promoting false solutions, or distracting from or delaying credible climate action. More than six in ten (62%) consumers believe companies are engaging in greenwashing, up from a third in 2023 and over half in 2024, the research found. And more than three-quarters believe corporations should do more to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Sunday 26th October
God of Creation,
God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Empower your Church to execute justice and speak truth to power. Equip your Church to work for the healing of the nations and the flourishing of all.
Enable your church to recognise its priestly calling to tend and keep.
Father of Creation,
God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
You made a world of wonder,
A world that takes our breath away. You declared it to be good.
The Lord’s name is to be praised.
Amen
Taken from prayer 17, Jon Swales, https://greenchristian.org.uk/lament-hope-40-prayers-for-the-climate-and-ecological-emergency/
Monday 27th October
Uttarakhand in India, … is home to several fast-flowing rivers at high altitudes that serve as the perfect backdrop for harnessing energy from water to produce hydroelectric power. In this state, the Tehri dam, situated in Garhwal, is the highest dam in India. The amalgamation of rivers and high mountains in this area is ideally suited to producing electricity for rural and urban areas through hydropower and other renewable energy sources such as solar and wind. In the neighbouring state of Ladakh, the Zoji La is one of the highest mountain passes in the world. It’s surrounded by the rugged terrain of Trans-Himalayas, with cold desert slopes, snow-capped peaks and alpine meadows. This biodiverse region is home to snow leopards, Himalayan brown bears, wolves, Pallas cats, yaks and lynx… However, development of hydropower projects and rapid urbanisation in the Indian Himalayas are actively degrading the environmental and ecological landscape, particularly in the ecologically sensitive, seismically active and fragile regions of Joshimath in Uttarakhand and Zoji La in Ladakh. The construction of hydropower plants, along with associated railways, all-weather highways and tunnels across the Himalayan mountains, is being undertaken without adequate urban planning, design or implementation.
Tuesday 28th October
Space-saving, low-input, pest-free: vertical farming is often regarded as a solution to many of conventional agriculture’s woes, writes Emma Bryce. But the findings of a new study draw a question mark over its prospects, showing in lettuce farm experiments that vertical agriculture had higher environmental impacts than conventional in all but one category. Even when it came to land-use where high-rising vertical farms would appear to have the edge, the study found that in fact these farms had twice the impact of lettuces farmed on conventional fields.
Wednesday 29th October
“COP30 will be the ‘COP of truth,’” Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva declared on Tuesday, September 23, during his opening speech at the 80th United Nations General Assembly in New York. According to Lula, the moment must be treated with the utmost seriousness by world leaders if there is to be real progress in confronting climate change…Lula also underscored the importance of climate financing for the Global South. “Developing nations confront climate change even as they battle other challenges. Meanwhile, wealthy countries enjoy a standard of living built on two centuries of emissions. Demanding greater ambition and greater access to resources and technologies is not a matter of charity, but of justice,” he stressed.
Thursday 30th October
The upcoming assessment cycle of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will be authored by more experts from global south institutions than ever before, Carbon Brief analysis finds. Article author Ayesha Tandon continues: More than 660 scientists from 90 countries have been selected to write the three “working group” reports that will form the core of the IPCC’s seventh assessment cycle (AR7). These three reports are scheduled to be published by 2029 and will summarise the latest research on climate change. Carbon Brief analysis finds that a record 42% of authors of these upcoming reports are based at institutions in the global south. … Furthermore, Carbon Brief finds that 46% of the report authors are listed as “female” – the second-highest percentage to date for any group of IPCC reports.
Friday 31st October
Pharmaceuticals are not just in medicine cabinets, writes Jordan Joseph. They also move through wastewater treatment plants, which clean what we send down drains but were not designed to remove many modern drugs. A new study tested how well large municipal plants in Poland filter common medicines and found that several slip past, reaching rivers at levels that can harm aquatic life… The team sampled six large urban plants that follow the same treatment method, one used in many parts of the world. They examined incoming wastewater, treated water, and sludge for over a dozen commonly used medicines. They measured concentrations down to nanograms per liter (ng/L) – billionths of a gram per liter – and calculated a risk quotient that compares measured levels with safe thresholds for algae, invertebrates, and fish. All of the plants allowed some medicines to pass through into rivers and streams. Only a few types were regularly filtered out by the treatment process.
https://www.earth.com/news/water-treatment-plants-cant-keep-medicines-out-of-rivers/
Saturday 1st November
Join with many other Christians from around the world with the monthly Pray and Fast for the Climate Movement on the first of each month. Prayer points for this month will be on their website.
Merciful God, we believe that you uphold and sustain all that you have made, while also lovingly giving us the freedom to live in relationship with the rest of creation. We ask your forgiveness for the ways we have abused that freedom, through what we have done and what we have left undone. We bring our lament and our longing for a renewed earth to you now:
(Christian Climate Action’s prayer for climate grief).
https://prayandfastfortheclimate.org.uk/resources/
Sunday 2nd November
God of hope,
we cling to you,
for you renew the face of the earth.
Through the gift of your Son,
our Lord Jesus,
we follow you on the path of dawn.
Enlightened by your love and wisdom,
help us to lead each other
and all creatures
back to your open arms.
Amen.
Rachel McCarthy/CAFOD
https://cafod.org.uk/pray/prayer-resources/god-of-hope
Monday 3rd November
With one week to go before COP30 opens in Brazil, pre sessional meetings are starting from today. These include the 14th Meeting of the Facilitative Working Group of the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform and the 126th meeting of the Clean Development Mechanism Executive board, as well as coordination meetings between various groups of countries.
Join Green Christian for ten minutes of prayer and reflection, at 8am every morning during COP30, from 10 Nov to 22 Nov, except for the middle Sunday 16 November which is a day of rest at COP. COPs often over-run so on Saturday 22 November we intend to carry on praying, either for the final negotiations, or for the outcomes of the decisions taken. These prayer sessions will be on Zoom and led by a team from Green Christian.
https://greenchristian.org.uk/pray-with-us-for-cop30/
Tuesday 4th November
Brazil’s environment agency, IBAMA, has approved an environmental license for state-owned oil company Petrobras to drill for oil near the mouth of the Amazon River, writes Shanna Hanbury. The license, issued Oct. 20, allows the company start drilling the offshore Morpho well in oil block FZA-M-059, about 500 kilometers (311 miles) from the river’s mouth, and 2.8 km (1.7 mi) below the seafloor. Environmental groups have vehemently condemned the decision, saying they will pursue legal action. “[President] Lula has just buried his claim of being a climate leader at the bottom of the ocean at the mouth of the Amazon River,” Suely Araújo, public policy coordinator at the Climate Observatory, a Brazilian watchdog organization, said in a statement. “The government will be duly sued for this in the coming days.”… The oil company said the drilling will start immediately and is expected to last for five months, meaning it will overlap with the COP30 climate summit, the first to be hosted by Brazil, in the Amazon Rainforest.
Wednesday 5th November
Brazil’s [COP30] presidency has named several priorities focused around mobilising climate action and meeting climate finance goals. Global Witness takes a look at each of these in the days before COP 30 officially starts:
1) A renewed focus on ending forest loss: At COP26, over 140 countries promised to halt and reverse deforestation by 2030, a pledge reaffirmed at COP28. But despite gains in the Brazilian Amazon under Lula’s government, global forest loss hit record highs in 2024, and we are veering dangerously off-course. Lasting change requires stronger laws to protect forest defenders, enable deforestation-free trade, and an end to the finance driving forest destruction. Against this backdrop, Brazil plans to launch the Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF) at COP30, a proposed $125 billion fund that would invest money in global markets and use the profits to pay tropical forest countries that protect their forests. But this new facility risks papering over the bigger issue: the vast private finance still flowing to deforesting companies. If leaders are serious about saving forests, they must ensure that the TFFF supports Indigenous and local communities directly and sets a new standard for deforestation-free finance, ideally starting with regulations that govern the whole system, not just the fund.
https://globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/fossil-fuels/everything-you-need-to-know-about-cop/
Thursday 6th November
Brazil’s [COP30] presidency has named several priorities focused around mobilising climate action and meeting climate finance goals. Global Witness takes a look at each of these in the days before COP 30 officially starts:
2) Baku to Belem Roadmap to 1.3T: UN climate chief Simon Stiell has called this roadmap a “how-to guide” on raising climate finance, which will lay out concrete steps to meet the NCQG’s total $1.3 trillion goal. Ways to raise money – on top of contributions from developed countries – could include private and philanthropic investment, levies on polluting industries, and reforms of multilateral development banks (such as the World Bank and the IMF) to allow them to buy existing private loans for energy transition projects in low-income countries. Plans for the roadmap were shared at Bonn, with updates due to be discussed at COP30.
https://globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/fossil-fuels/everything-you-need-to-know-about-cop/
Friday 7th November
Brazil’s [COP30] presidency has named several priorities focused around mobilising climate action and meeting climate finance goals. Global Witness takes a look at each of these in the days before COP 30 officially starts:
3) Updated National Determined Contributions (NDCs): Crucial to staying within the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C global heating threshold are each country’s individual plans to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, known as NDCs. Every five years, countries must submit revised NDCs to the UNFCCC secretariat, adapting their projected targets and actions to the evolving climate emergency. The third round of NDCs were due in February 2025, but so far only 20 out of 195 parties have submitted theirs. COP30 CEO Ana Toni has optimistically said that these delays could indicate a more thorough stocktake of NDCs and practical plans for their implementation. Whatever the reason, talks at COP30 will look to ease “bottlenecks.”
https://globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/fossil-fuels/everything-you-need-to-know-about-cop/
Saturday 8th November
Brazil’s [COP30] presidency has named several priorities focused around mobilising climate action and meeting climate finance goals. Global Witness takes a look at each of these in the days before COP 30 officially starts:
4) Turning negotiations into action: Thirty years of climate negotiations in, and following last year’s criticisms from leading UN climate voices that COP is “no longer fit for purpose”, COP30 president do Lago is calling for a new era of “climate urgency” that moves COP into a “post-negotiation” phase. The tone he hopes to set is less about debate and more about actionable plans. But with multiple petrostates throwing obstacles in the path towards banning fossil fuels at recent COPs, just how far negotiators can push the final text remains to be seen.
https://globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/fossil-fuels/everything-you-need-to-know-about-cop/
Sunday 9th November
The United Nations climate conference, COP30, begins tomorrow. Let us bring our prayers to God, who created the earth and all within it.
We pray for the Church: may we speak and act together as we urgently work towards good stewardship of your creation and your presence in all living things. Lord, in your mercy…
We pray for the world; the interdependence of all living things; the beauty and flourishing of the planet plundered and misused for generations by human activity; may we all, through our actions, help repair the harm we have caused. Lord, in your mercy…
We pray for the peoples already facing droughts, floods and storms: that God may grant them strength and hope for the future as they work to adapt to the changing climate. Lord, in your mercy…
We pray for our parish and our local community: that through the grace of God we may examine our environmental impact and make choices for the common good. Lord, in your mercy…
O God, who calls all people to justice and care for the earth, hear and grant these prayers. Through Christ our Lord. Amen
https://cafod.org.uk/pray/prayer-resources/cop30-intercessions
Monday 10th November
COP day 1 see the opening plenary meetings. COP30’s main challenges are:
- agreeing commitment for climate finance
- ensuring that emission reduction targets are compatible with climate science
- dealing with the socio-economic impacts of climate change on vulnerable populations.
The themes for today and tomorrow will highlight Adaptation, Cities, Infrastructure, Water, Waste, Local Governments, Bioeconomy, Circular Economy, Science, Technology, and Artificial Intelligence, laying the groundwork for climate readiness and resilience across all systems, sectors, communities, and regions.
Join Green Christian for ten minutes of prayer and reflection, at 8am every morning from 10 to 22 Nov, except for the middle Sunday 16 November which is a day of rest at COP. COPs often over-run so on Saturday 22 November we intend to carry on praying, either for the final negotiations, or for the outcomes of the decisions taken. These prayer sessions will be on Zoom and led by a team from Green Christian.
https://greenchristian.org.uk/pray-with-us-for-cop30/
Tuesday 11th November
COP Day 2. The themes for today continue with Adaptation, Cities, Infrastructure, Water, Waste, Local Governments, Bioeconomy, Circular Economy, Science, Technology, and Artificial Intelligence, laying the groundwork for climate readiness and resilience across all systems, sectors, communities, and regions.
Join Green Christian for ten minutes of prayer and reflection, at 8am every morning from 10 to 22 Nov, except for the middle Sunday 16 November which is a day of rest at COP. COPs often over-run so on Saturday 22 November we intend to carry on praying, either for the final negotiations, or for the outcomes of the decisions taken. These prayer sessions will be on Zoom and led by a team from Green Christian.
https://greenchristian.org.uk/pray-with-us-for-cop30/
Wednesday 12th November
COP Day 3
The themes for today and tomorrow are Health, Jobs, Education, Culture, Justice and human rights, Information integrity, and Workers. These days also introduce the Global Ethical Stocktake, reinforcing equity and moral responsibility in climate governance.
Join Green Christian for ten minutes of prayer and reflection, at 8am every morning from 10 to 22 Nov, except for the middle Sunday 16 November which is a day of rest at COP. COPs often over-run so on Saturday 22 November we intend to carry on praying, either for the final negotiations, or for the outcomes of the decisions taken. These prayer sessions will be on Zoom and led by a team from Green Christian.
https://greenchristian.org.uk/pray-with-us-for-cop30/
Thursday 13th November
COP Day 4
Today continues with the themes of Health, Jobs, Education, Culture, Justice and human rights, Information integrity, and Workers. These days also introduce the Global Ethical Stocktake, reinforcing equity and moral responsibility in climate governance.
Join Green Christian for ten minutes of prayer and reflection, at 8am every morning from 10 to 22 Nov, except for the middle Sunday 16 November which is a day of rest at COP. COPs often over-run so on Saturday 22 November we intend to carry on praying, either for the final negotiations, or for the outcomes of the decisions taken. These prayer sessions will be on Zoom and led by a team from Green Christian.
https://greenchristian.org.uk/pray-with-us-for-cop30/
Friday 14th November
COP Day 5
Themes today and tomorrow zoom in on systems transformation across Energy, Industry, Transport, Trade, Finance, Carbon markets, and Non-CO₂ gases, supporting the global push to triple renewable energy, double energy efficiency, and transition away from fossil fuels in a just, orderly, and equitable manner.
Join Green Christian for ten minutes of prayer and reflection, at 8am every morning from 10 to 22 Nov, except for the middle Sunday 16 November which is a day of rest at COP. COPs often over-run so on Saturday 22 November we intend to carry on praying, either for the final negotiations, or for the outcomes of the decisions taken. These prayer sessions will be on Zoom and led by a team from Green Christian.
https://greenchristian.org.uk/pray-with-us-for-cop30/
Saturday 15th November
COP Day 6
Themes today continue with Energy, Industry, Transport, Trade, Finance, Carbon markets, and Non-CO₂ gases, supporting the global push to triple renewable energy, double energy efficiency, and transition away from fossil fuels in a just, orderly, and equitable manner.
Join Green Christian for ten minutes of prayer and reflection, at 8am every morning from 10 to 22 Nov, except for the middle Sunday 16 November which is a day of rest at COP. COPs often over-run so on Saturday 22 November we intend to carry on praying, either for the final negotiations, or for the outcomes of the decisions taken. These prayer sessions will be on Zoom and led by a team from Green Christian.
https://greenchristian.org.uk/pray-with-us-for-cop30/
Sunday 16th November
COP Day 7 – rest day
As the United Nations climate conference, COP30, continues, let us bring our prayers to God, who created the earth and all within it.
We pray for world leaders: that they may all work together, through the decisions taken, to protect the planet and all live within it. Lord, in your mercy…
We pray for the Church: may we discern our roles and tasks arising from the decisions taken at COP30 and take action to achieve them. Lord, in your mercy…
We pray for the world; that our collective actions will begin the long process of repair to the damage we have caused and that God will help us become better stewards. Lord, in your mercy…
We pray for our parish and local community: that decisions taken in our parish life will help us live simply, sustainably and in solidarity with the earth and all life within it. Lord, in your mercy…
O God, who calls all people to justice and care for the earth, hear and grant these prayers. Through Christ our Lord. Amen
https://cafod.org.uk/pray/prayer-resources/cop30-intercessions
Monday 17th November
COP Day 8
Today and tomorrow’s themes are designed to elevate both planetary and community stewardship — centering on Forests, Oceans, and Biodiversity, while spotlighting Indigenous peoples, Local and traditional communities, Children and Youth, and Small and medium entrepreneurs, showcasing inclusive, grounded, and nature-aligned solutions.
Join Green Christian for ten minutes of prayer and reflection, at 8am every morning from 10 to 22 Nov, except for the middle Sunday 16 November which is a day of rest at COP. COPs often over-run so on Saturday 22 November we intend to carry on praying, either for the final negotiations, or for the outcomes of the decisions taken. These prayer sessions will be on Zoom and led by a team from Green Christian.
https://greenchristian.org.uk/pray-with-us-for-cop30/
Tuesday 18th November
COP Day 9
Themes today continue to elevate both planetary and community stewardship — centering on Forests, Oceans, and Biodiversity, while spotlighting Indigenous peoples, Local and traditional communities, Children and Youth, and Small and medium entrepreneurs, showcasing inclusive, grounded, and nature-aligned solutions.
Join Green Christian for ten minutes of prayer and reflection, at 8am every morning from 10 to 22 Nov, except for the middle Sunday 16 November which is a day of rest at COP. COPs often over-run so on Saturday 22 November we intend to carry on praying, either for the final negotiations, or for the outcomes of the decisions taken. These prayer sessions will be on Zoom and led by a team from Green Christian.
https://greenchristian.org.uk/pray-with-us-for-cop30/
Wednesday 19th November
COP Day 10
These last two thematic days will address food, agriculture, and equity at their roots, covering agriculture, food systems and food security, fisheries, and family farming. They will also emphasize debates related to Women, Gender, and Afrodescendants, as well as Tourism.
Join Green Christian for ten minutes of prayer and reflection, at 8am every morning from 10 to 22 Nov, except for the middle Sunday 16 November which is a day of rest at COP. COPs often over-run so on Saturday 22 November we intend to carry on praying, either for the final negotiations, or for the outcomes of the decisions taken. These prayer sessions will be on Zoom and led by a team from Green Christian.
https://greenchristian.org.uk/pray-with-us-for-cop30/
Thursday 20th November
COP Day 11
Yesterday and today will address food, agriculture, and equity at their roots, covering agriculture, food systems and food security, fisheries, and family farming. They will also emphasize debates related to Women, Gender, and Afrodescendants, as well as Tourism.
Join Green Christian for ten minutes of prayer and reflection, at 8am every morning from 10 to 22 Nov, except for the middle Sunday 16 November which is a day of rest at COP. COPs often over-run so on Saturday 22 November we intend to carry on praying, either for the final negotiations, or for the outcomes of the decisions taken. These prayer sessions will be on Zoom and led by a team from Green Christian.
https://greenchristian.org.uk/pray-with-us-for-cop30/
Friday 21st November
End of COP – Day 12
Final day at COP30 in Brazil. No thematic programming to allow Parties to focus on the final stages of the negotiations. Pray for last minute break throughs and consensus on action.
Join Green Christian for ten minutes of prayer and reflection, at 8am every morning from 10 to 22 Nov, except for the middle Sunday 16 November which is a day of rest at COP. COPs often over-run so on Saturday 22 November we intend to carry on praying, either for the final negotiations, or for the outcomes of the decisions taken. These prayer sessions will be on Zoom and led by a team from Green Christian.
https://greenchristian.org.uk/pray-with-us-for-cop30/
Saturday 22nd November
COP meetings often run over, so it is likely that meetings will continue into today.
“God will ask us if we have cultivated and cared for the world that He created for the benefit of all and future generations, and if we have taken care of our brothers and sisters – what will be our answer, my dear friends?” Pope Leo.
“Glance at the sun. See the moon and the stars. Gaze at the beauty of the Earth’s greenings. Now, think.” Hildegard von Bingen
Join Green Christian for ten minutes of prayer and reflection, at 8am every morning from 10 to 22 Nov, except for the middle Sunday 16 November which is a day of rest at COP. COPs often over-run so on Saturday 22 November we intend to carry on praying, either for the final negotiations, or for the outcomes of the decisions taken. These prayer sessions will be on Zoom and led by a team from Green Christian.
https://greenchristian.org.uk/pray-with-us-for-cop30/
Sunday 23rd November
Come Lord Jesus, come
and let your light shine through us
so that through our actions
we may be salt for the earth,
a light in people’s sight
and that we might reach out to you
in one another,
especially those in need.
Amen.
https://cafod.org.uk/pray/prayer-resources/let-your-light-shine
Monday 24th November
“Extreme” wildfires emitted more than 8bn tonnes of carbon dioxide during the 2024-25 “global fire season”, according to a new report. The annual “state of wildfires” report from an international team of scientists finds that fires burned at least 3.7m square kilometres of land – an area larger than India – between March 2024 and February 2025. This is almost 10% below the average annual area burned over the past two decades. But, due to an increase in wildfires in carbon-rich forests, the CO2 emissions resulting from these fires were almost 10% above average. The report also zooms in on four of the most prominent extreme wildfire events during this time: southern California; north-east Amazonia; South America’s Pantanal-Chiquitano region; and the Congo Basin. All of these events were found to have been more likely to occur as a result of human-caused climate change.
https://www.carbonbrief.org/global-wildfires-burned-an-area-of-land-larger-than-india-in-2024/
Tuesday 25th November
The European Commission has proposed delaying the EU’s flagship anti-deforestation law for the second year in a row as it continues its war on red tape. The rules, which would force companies to stop using commodities that have been produced on deforested land, are unpopular with many businesses who argue they impose complex regulatory burdens. Several of the EU’s trading partners have also complained about the law. “[W]e still cannot believe that we can really get this without disruption for our businesses,” the EU’s environment commissioner Jessika Roswall told reporters on Tuesday, announcing the delay of the European Union Deforestation Regulation. “We need the time to combat the risk with the load of information in the IT system.”… It’s the latest in a long string of actions by the Commission since late last year to weaken or delay green rules, part of a grand push to get rid of red tape and boost the global competitiveness of European industry. The anti-deforestation rules, which target commodities such as coffee, beef, soy and palm oil, require companies to look deep into their supply chain to ensure these commodities hadn’t contributed to deforestation or human rights abuses.
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-deforestation-rules-delayed-again/
Wednesday 26th November
Just 28% of countries have met a UN call to submit new plans on addressing nature loss – a year after the original deadline, Carbon Brief analysis shows. Article writer Daisy Dunne continues: Several of the world’s most biodiverse countries – including Brazil, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Africa – are among those that have not yet released their nature plans. Countries were asked to submit their pledges, known as national biodiversity strategies and action plans (NBSAPs), by the start of the COP16 biodiversity summit in Colombia on 21 October 2024. After only 15% of nations met the original deadline, countries agreed at the summit to a new text that “urges” countries to release their NBSAPs “as soon as possible”. Many developing countries have expressed that a lack of available funding has prevented them from publishing their NBSAPs.
Thursday 27th November
Laysan albatrosses are thriving again on Guadalupe Island, a slab of volcanic rock about 240 kilometres off the western coast of Mexico. It is one of almost 100 Mexican islands where both people and wildlife are gaining from an initiative to restore their battered ecosystems. The initiative has prioritized the eradication of invasive alien species – the primary driver of losses and extinctions among the unique flora and fauna that evolved on isolated islands – before giving a helping hand to species ranging from the majestic albatrosses to little-known endemic plants to stage a comeback. The United Nations has named the initiative, which has been running for a quarter-century and posted impressive results, among its World Restoration Flagships – sites across the world honoured by the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration for exemplary large-scale and long-term ecosystem restoration. The accolade is part of a global effort to nurse nature back to health and make land- and seascapes everywhere more resilient to climate change.
https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/how-locally-extinct-seabirds-returned-mexicos-islands
Friday 28th November
Great British (GB) Energy, the publicly owned energy company to help deliver the UK’s 2030 clean power targets, will provide funding for 34 NHS trusts to add solar panels to around 70 new sites, including hospitals and mental health facilities, writes Sidhi Mittal. This expansion brings the total number of NHS sites involved in the programme to about 260. The initiative is expected to save NHS trusts up to £65m in energy costs over the lifetime of the new installations. Across all sites, lifetime savings are estimated to reach £325m, with the average NHS site projected to save around £35,000 a year. The NHS, the largest energy user in the public sector, faces annual energy bills of about £1.34bn, nearly double what it paid in 2019. Rising costs have been driven by fluctuations in global fossil fuel markets.
https://www.edie.net/nhs-to-save-65m-through-solar-panel-deal-with-gb-energy/
Saturday 29th November
Tomorrow is Remembrance Day for Lost Species
We pause to remember our place at the beginning of the Sixth Great Extinction on Planet Earth.
For 4.5 billion years our earth has been developing: bringing to birth, becoming more complex, more organized, more conscious.
The other great extinctions during the past 450 million years happened by forces of geology and accidents, involving physics and chemistry. This time, our species is bringing ruin to whole ecosystems, cancelling entire species, laying waste the interdependence of ecosystems.
We here acknowledge that we play a part in this dying back. We participate by our carelessness, ignorance, and indifference.
We are here with regret, shame, anger or grief for our part in the death of healthy ecosystems and the resulting extinction of creatures.
We grieve humans’ lack of awareness of, and concern about, the destruction of interdependent communities that have taken billions of years to develop.
Assembled and written by Green Christian Trustee, Andii Bowsher
Sunday 30th November
Advent Sunday
God of Love,
Your son, Jesus, is your greatest gift to us.
He is a sign of your love.
Help us walk in that love during the weeks of Advent,
As we wait and prepare for his coming.
We pray in the name of Jesus, our Savior.
– Author Unknown
https://www.xavier.edu/jesuitresource/online-resources/prayer-index/advent-prayers#Candles
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