Displaying green hearts alongside allies from organisations across the climate movement is a way for Catholics to echo both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor. Last year, CAFOD supporters mobilised in huge numbers to bring this message to our government and world leaders ahead of COP26. More than one hundred MPs
Reblogging from our campaign partner, Climate.Cymru, we catch up with Gareth Ellis, the founder, Director and Project Manger for The Green Valleys CIC. This community interest company is a multi award winning social enterprise, inspiring and supporting community led action on climate change. Reading the IPCC report brought mixed feelings. From shock and fear to hope
Climate Sunday and Climate.Cymru A number of member organisations of Climate.Cymru are inspired by faith – as the blog by Anna Fraine from CAFOD in April expressed so powerfully. An amazingly broad coalition of Christian churches and organisations from across Britain and Ireland has come together to pool our resources in the run-up to the
Anna Fraine, a CAFOD Campaigners Officer and Trustee for Million Minutes, explains how her faith motivates her climate campaigning: This Lent, I am challenging myself to be silent as a faithful act of campaigning. My time staying silent – with hundreds of others - hopes to create a deafening ‘noise’ as an act of solidarity with young
For many years, WI members have put climate change firmly on the agenda by taking part in The Climate Coalition’s Show the Love campaign which was launched in 2015. Show the Love takes place annually around Valentine’s Day and encourages people to show the love for all the places and things they appreciate, and
A coalition of Welsh charities launched a campaign for Wales to eliminate imported deforestation from its economy to tackle climate change, nature loss and build resilience against pandemics. Ahead of the 2021 Senedd elections, the campaign by Size of Wales, RSPB Cymru and WWF Cymru calls on parties to commit to policies that would make Wales the world’s
Coalitions of civil society organisations from across the UK have welcomed the announcement of a new date for COP26, the UN climate talks that were due to happen in November 2020. COP26 will now take place from 1st - 12th November 2021 in Glasgow. Clara Goldsmith, Campaigns Director of The Climate Coalition said: “Postponing
Currently we are nowhere near to meeting our climate emissions targets, or our tree cover targets. It is now our ‘global responsibility’ to urgently address this declared climate emergency and the deepening nature crisis. “We have recently declared a climate emergency in Wales but are failing to take the action at the scale or pace
