The Climate and Creation Emergency
We are failing in our duty to serve and preserve creation
After 28 climate conferences, predicted carbon emissions are still a long way from where they need to be to safeguard our climate.
In April last year, the head of the UN, Antonio Guterres, said “the world is on a fast track to climate disaster”
More than 11,000 scientist from around the world have declared that planet Earth is facing a climate emergency.
And it’s not just climate. Watch top earth scientist Johan Rockström’s TED talk on breaking boundaries.
To explore our response to the Climate and Creation Emergency click on the images below.
The last climate conference, COP28, took place in Dubai, in November 2023. Yet again it failed us. The final deal requires countries only to “transition away from fossil fuels in energy systems, in a just, orderly and equitable manner” by 2050 and only some progress was made on climate finance. We knew it before COP but we know more deeply now that our global leaders do not have the collective moral courage to prevent the breakdown of our abundant-life-supporting climate. Let’s grasp this opportunity not to dwell in despair and denial, but to pray and live with love and meaning at this time.
The next UN Biodiversity Conference, COP16, is scheduled to be held from 21 October to 1 November, 2024 in Cali, Colombia.