Faith-Based Climate Action
NCCA Statement
3 MARCH 2021
11 MARCH 2021- A DAY OUR GLOBAL COMMUNITY OF FAITH UNITE TO FACE THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY!
March 11, 2021 at 11am will mark a global time of action in response to worsening climate change. People of faith across the world are offering their prayers, meditations, and advocacy across the different time-zones.
Many of our Australian Churches will be participating. People of all faiths are speaking with one voice from our shared value of compassion.
In Australia, we are calling on our Prime Minister to facilitate a multi-party agreement to a target of net zero emissions by 2050. We note that reaching the target earlier, by 2030, is the request of developed nations like Australia in the Paris Agreement.
We are urging Australia’s most imaginative and generous national contribution to the crucial UN Climate Change Conference of Parties (UNCOP 26) that is occurring this November in Glasgow.
We know we need a bold vision and cooperative leadership to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement and to thus contain the rise in global temperatures.
Visionary leadership now, as with our national response to the pandemic, will inspire our young people.
As our young people follow their education and employment pathways, the goal of creating jobs and a safer environment will give them hope, meaning and purpose.
They are our future nation-builders and just need inspired leadership now!
Like President Joe Biden, our young people need to hear our PM saying:” When I think of the climate, I think of jobs.” We all need to see further investment in clean jobs and industry plans for those in coal/gas communities so that everyone is looked after.
We have the innovative expertise to ensure our economy flourishes, our climate is safe, and we are good neighbours in the Asia-Pacific region!
Hence our call to our Prime Minister on March 11, as our Church Bells ring and our prayers are offered.
Set the target; inspire our best!
BISHOP PHILIP HUGGINS, NCCA PRESIDENT.
For more information regarding events on March 11, go to Sacred People Sacred Earth Global Multi Faith Climate Actint
Download the pdf NCCA March 11 Statement (70 KB)
Sacred People, Sacred Earth
Thursday, 11 March 2021
Join faith communities around the world on March 11 for the biggest-ever multi-faith Day of Action on the climate crisis called Sacred People, Sacred Earth.
Together, we will press urgently at both national and international levels for a compassionate, just response to COVID-19 and the climate emergency.
Your church could be one of hundreds of places of worship around the world ‘sounding the alarm’ for climate justice. You can do this by ringing bells if you have them, playing bagpipes or other instruments, singing, or anything else, as long as you can take photos or videos for social media. Get involved or see more information here.
Please sign a bold new multi faith statement on the need for serious climate action. The signatories will also include globally recognised faith leaders. Do ask as many people as possible to sign this too. This will be released to the media on the day.
The Day of Action is being organised in 14 countries by GreenFaith International. Here in Australia the organisation leading the way is the Australian Religious Response to Climate Change (ARRCC).
The statement and Day of Action will be the start of a multi-faith Year of Action around the world leading up to the next round of crucial international climate negotiations (COP26) to be held in Glasgow in November. We want 2021 to be the year that, at a national level and globally, climate action begins to match what is needed to protect life on earth.
