This website is best viewed with CSS and JavaScript enabled.

Home > climate change

News Stories


climate change

Rio Tinto faces up to Church of England shareholders’ resolution on coal-lobby

A C of E resolution challenging Rio Tinto’s continuing support for pro-coal lobby groups gained the support of 18 per cent of shareholders.

03 May 2018

Faith leaders call for urgent climate change action at Commonwealth heads of government meeting

Former Archbishop Rowan Williams and other faith leaders urge Commonwealth heads to turn “words into action” on climate change.

18 April 2018

Bishop welcomes NZ government announcement on offshore oil drilling

The Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern, has announced a ban on new permits for offshore oil and gas exploration.

12 April 2018

Mothers’ Union steps in to help snow-trapped medics’ unplanned hospital stay

Mothers’ Union members in Newcastle, north-east England, stepped in to help doctors and nurses trapped at work by heavy snow.

04 April 2018

Bishop Gregory Venables calls South American bishops together to tackle climate change

Bishops from South America are to discuss ways of tackling the “ever-growing environmental challenges resulting from climate change”.

26 March 2018

New Zealand Anglicans plan climate change protest at Petroleum Conference

Anglicans from the Diocese of Wellington are planning to protest against what is billed as “New Zealand’s premier oil and gas event.”

16 March 2018

Oceania regional primates pledge united action on climate change and gender-based violence

Primates in the Oceania region have pledged to take concrete action in the fight against climate change and gender-based violence.

13 March 2018

Lent Resources: Anglican and Roman Catholic environmentalists join forces for carbon-fast

The Anglican Communion Environmental Network and the Global Catholic Climate Movement have produced a multi-lingual carbon fast.

07 February 2018

ExxonMobil concede defeat in climate change battle with Church of England

ExxonMobil says it will comply with a C of E climate change resolution, as a paris summit discusses new ways to address the “emergency”.

13 December 2017

Southern African Primate takes part in 24-hour climate change broadcast

Archbishop Thabo Makgoba takes part in a live 24-hour broadcast to detail how people all over the world are fighting the climate crisis.

05 December 2017