COP26: Christians demand action
Iain Taylor
Date posted: 1 Nov 2021
Evangelicals are prominent among church
leaders demanding change in the run-up to
the COP26 climate change conference. This
will take place in Glasgow from 31 October
to 12 November and will be attended by
190 world leaders.
At COP21 in Paris in 2015, for the first
time, every country agreed to work together
to limit global warming to, ideally, 1.5 degrees;
to adapt to the impacts of a changing climate
and to make money available to do so. Under
this Paris Agreement they were mandated
to present how they would achieve this at
COP26.
Evangelicals speak out at COP26
Iain Taylor
Date posted: 1 Dec 2021
Christians have made their presence felt at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.
Many young evangelicals were among the thousands who marched through the city as part of the Fridays For Future movement, inspired by the Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, who was at the rally. Churches were behind a special handing-in of petition signatures and paper ‘prayer boats’ to the COP presidency.