In fewer than 30 years, Brazil has become a world leader in industrial agriculture - producing commodities including corn, soybeans, coffee, cocoa, sugarcane and beef - at times at the expense of the local population and the environment.
31 October 2011
The Bishop of London the Rt Revd Richard Chartres led Church of England environment officers on a Transport for London hybrid bus trip today. The ride was part of the CofE's continuing commitment to environmental issues, through its Shrinking the Footprint campaign.
28 September 2011
The Episcopal Church House of Bishops, meeting in Province IX, in Quito, Ecuador, issued the following Pastoral Teaching
26 September 2011
“Iumi go fowad tugeta” - travelling forward together - was the strategy agreed at the Anglican Alliance’s Pacific consultation which closed today.
09 September 2011
This Heritage Day, 24 September 2011, environmental organizations the world over – including in Cape Town – will take to the streets to call for a new way of moving, a way that moves beyond fossil fuels and a dependency on private vehicles and leaves behind a sustainable, low-carbon legacy.
05 September 2011
The government and people of Australia have been issued a prophetic challenge by The Environment Working Group of the General Synod (the national parliament) of the Anglican Church of Australia, to take up their moral responsibility to reduce carbon emissions, and it says paying for the cost of carbon pollution will be a necessary part of that action.
18 August 2011
The effects of climate change and human-induced environmental degradation continue to accelerate in all regions of the Anglican Communion. This became starkly clear at the Anglican Communion Environmental Network’s meeting in Chaclacayo (Lima), Peru.
16 August 2011
The second meeting of the Anglican Communion Environmental Network (ACEN) will occur in Lima, Peru from Aug 4-10, 2011.
29 July 2011
The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) is looking forward to working with the faith communities in Africa on environmental issues, retired South African Anglican Bishop Geoffrey Davies said.
22 June 2011
Shrinking the Footprint www.shrinkingthefootprint.org, the Church of England's national environmental campaign, is encouraging churchgoers to take a closer look at wild plants in their churchyards.
20 May 2011