WCC NEWS: Climate justice photo petition

From WCC media <[email protected]>
Date Wed, 17 Nov 2010 16:14:06 +0100

World Council of Churches - News

PHOTO PETITION GIVES A FACE TO CALL FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE

For immediate release: 17 November 2010

People around the globe are called to put their names and faces behind
the call for strong international action on climate change. An
international coalition of Christian organizations is organizing a 
photo
petition that will bring the messages of all those who care for 
creation
to the United Nations climate talks.

The call comes ahead of the next round of negotiations by the parties 
to
the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change which will take place in
Cancun, Mexico, 29 November to 10 December.

The United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen 2009 failed to 
deliver
the legally binding treaty that many, including the World Council of
Churches (WCC), had hoped and advocated for.

"The more time political leaders lose before they agree on fair, 
ambitious
and binding measures, the harder it gets to mitigate the effects of
climate change, and the more people will lose their lives and 
livelihoods,
especially the poorest and most vulnerable," says Dr Guillermo 
Kerber, WCC
programme executive on climate change.

Last year's good news was that in 2009, from a strong, but small seed 
of
climate campaigning, a movement touching millions of people in 
hundreds of
countries around the world has grown. There was a strong witness in
Copenhagen by a coalition of Christian organizations including the 
WCC,
and around the world thousands of congregations rang their bells for
climate justice.

In order to keep up the momentum and put a face on the global call for
climate justice individuals and groups are now invited to contribute
images of themselves and their message to global leaders to the 
campaign.
Anyone can share a picture of themselves via Flickr (Link:
http://www.oikoumene.org/index.php?RDCT=b2359c66b354e85d187b ) or by 
sending
their picture (including their name and country) to
[email protected] (Link: [email protected] ).

The photos of the petition can be viewed at the ecumenical campaign’s
website climatejusticeonline.org (Link:
http://www.oikoumene.org/index.php?RDCT=ba9b4efd5235a3ae47d9 ) and 
will be displayed at the venue of
negotiations in Cancun.

Congregations and Christian groups who wish to hold photo sessions are
welcome to use the climate justice posters provided below or to design
their own message cards using the ecumenical symbol of the boat
(Link: http://www.oikoumene.org/index.php?RDCT=f670a9d9ee50d53bb471 
). An order of
service (Link: 
http://www.oikoumene.org/index.php?RDCT=577c83a78835763be20e ) and
other liturgical resources (Link:
http://www.oikoumene.org/index.php?RDCT=6a13b5fbcbe852729d88 ) on the 
theme of creation and
climate justice are also available.

For more information on the WCC and climate change visit
www.oikoumene.org/climatechange (Link:
http://www.oikoumene.org/index.php?RDCT=3c2aa6630ad6ab7811e0 )

Posters (pdf):
* We      Care for Creation (Link:
http://www.oikoumene.org/index.php?RDCT=874be0d0c1f1eea0f2ed
)
* Climate      Justice Now! (Link:
http://www.oikoumene.org/index.php?RDCT=f676703073fd03bc6e59
)
* Love      your neighbour: Fight climate change (Link:
http://www.oikoumene.org/index.php?RDCT=ed6b270697f8b37ac2e6
)


The World Council of Churches promotes Christian unity in faith, 
witness 
and service for a just and peaceful world. An ecumenical fellowship 
of 
churches founded in 1948, today the WCC brings together 349 
Protestant, 
Orthodox, Anglican and other churches representing more than 560 
million 
Christians in over 110 countries, and works cooperatively with the 
Roman 
Catholic Church. The WCC general secretary is Rev. Dr Olav Fykse 
Tveit, 
from the [Lutheran] Church of Norway. Headquarters: Geneva, 
Switzerland.



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