2025 Conference
Building on the rock: shared resilience for stormy times
Saturday 15 November 2025, 11.00 a.m. registration – 4.30 p.m.
St Mark’s Church, Lincoln Road, Peterborough PE1 2SN
Rupert Read, Climate Majority Project
Jo Chamberlain and Adrian Fox, Church of England Environment Programme
Rev Vanessa Elston, pioneering eco-vicar and chaplain to the Bishop of Kingston
Climate breakdown is happening. How can churches help their communities prepare for what’s coming? Join us in Peterborough to launch a national debate on the contribution of churches to the UK’s climate resilience.
After decades campaigning for cuts to global carbon emissions, we have to accept an uncomfortable truth. We have failed to achieve the action necessary to keep humanity safe. We now have not one job but two – to adapt to climate change as well as to mitigate it.
Our keynote speaker this November will be Rupert Read, writer, philosopher, environmentalist and co-founder and co-director of the Climate Majority Project. Its ‘SAFER’ campaign calls for ‘strategic adaptation for emergency resilience’. The UK’s first national campaign on adaptation, SAFER calls for climate resilience to be a national priority – practical, properly funded, and locally led. Green Christian is proud to support it.
This is not about ‘giving up’ on climate change – every fraction of a degree of warming avoided now will make a difference, so there can be no room for defeatism. However we must also plan for the consequences of failure – and as communities face the reality of climate change they can be galvanised to take action together.
Alongside Rupert Read we will be joined by Jo Chamberlain and Adrian Fox, national officers for the Church of England Environment Programme, who will share their leading-edge work preparing congregations for climate resilience. Bringing perspectives from pastoral care and mission will be pioneer priest Revd Vanessa Elston.
This conference will be the start of a journey which Green Christian will help to lead, enabling churches to grow as sites of hope on the brink of collapse. As the title has it, we will be ‘building on the rock’, that underpinning of solidarity and strength which is ours in faith.
Climate adaptation is a defining challenge for Christian mission today. Let’s rise to it.
The Annual Members’ Meeting of Green Christian precedes the conference at 10.00 a.m. Non-members are very welcome – come and find out what we do!
Bring and share vegetarian or vegan LOAF lunch. Drinks provided.
Cost
You can choose your own price:
£10 – Money’s tight at the moment
£15 – I can pay for a ticket
£20 – “We love you” ticket
We are able to offer some travel bursaries for people who are under 30 and who wish to attend this event. We will pay all reasonable travel expenses. If you’re interested please send us an email and we’ll reply giving more details of how to apply.
Comments on "2025 Conference"
Ruth Jarman:
So sorry, Mike, and others for whom Peterborough is not good. Peterborough is the best location for our speakers who are coming from Yorkshire, Norfolk and London. We will listen to the call to head west another time.
mike plunkett 01588 630018:
If this is a national conference, then it should be in London or Birmingham, Where is Peterborough ? A journey from South Shroposhire is impossible
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