Green Matters

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In addition there's a meeting organised by the Trade Justice Movement
Change trade not our Climate

Thursday 15 April 2010, 6-830pm

Large Meeting Room, Friends Meeting House, 173 Euston Road NW1 (opposite Euston station)

Scientists say we’re running out of time to stop dangerous climate change. At the same time unfair trade is pushing millions more into poverty. How do we move to a low carbon and just global trading system?

Come and take part in the debate

Speakers

Meena Raman, Secretary General of Friends of the Earth Malaysia
Ronnie Hall, Campaigns Coordinator, Global Forest Coalition
Angelica Navarro, Bolivian Ambassador to the UN (tbc)
South African Municipal Workers Union representative
The event has the support of ActionAid UK, CAFOD, Fairtrade Foundation, Friends of the Earth, Quaker Peace and Social Witness, Reading International Solidarity Centre, Traidcraft, UNISON, War on Want, World Development Movement

Thursday 22 April 8pm at the URC Church, Pond Square, Highgate N6.
Climate Injustice: What are the Challenges Now?
A meeting led by Paula Clifford, Christian Aid's Head of Theology and an advisor on climate change.

No charge but donations welcome. Visit www.HighgateClimateActionNetwork.org.uk

Useful websites include www.christian-ecology.org.uk , www.operationnoah.org

and www.campaigncc.org Campaign against Climate Change.

Archbishop of Canterbury gave the Operation Noah lecture
Dr Rowan Williams The Climate Crisis: A Christian Response
For full details and to read or hear the speech go to http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/2565

CAFOD is just one of the Christian organisations campaigning for “Climate Justice”
Details and “Climate Justice kit” can be found at http://www.cafod.org.uk/take-action/climate
See also http://www.shrinkingthefootprint.org for toolkits etc offered by the Church of England.

Many Heavens, One Earth (November 2009)
saw people of all faiths gathered at the Quaker Centre opposite Euston Station.
Presentations from leading UN, scientific and religious figures who had attended a multifaith conference at Windsor Castle + song and dance celebrating the commitment of faith communities to care for the environment.

A number of Camden people joined the WAVE! Saturday 5 December
Ecumenical Service + Stop Climate Chaos March ahead of the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen.
Anglican and Roman Catholic friends gathered under the Westminster Justice and Peace Commission banner before going into the Westminster Central Methodist Hall where we were lucky to get places in the overflow hall. Some then went to the start of the March but a couple of us were again lucky to meet up with the head of the peaceful and fun march as it passed Berkeley Square. We slipped in amidst Christian Aid and RSPB placards. We later met up again with the Westminster J&P banner, CAFOD people and friends from the Anglican London Diocese and were well positioned on the bridge as a blue ring was formed round Parliament.

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