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Solidarity With Africa
Click here to read a Reuters article about the trip! In late August the co-chairs of the National Council of Churches (USA) Eco-Justice Program along with the Assistant Director of the Climate and Energy Campaign will be participating as UN Observers at a working group meeting on post-Kyoto Climate Change talks in Ghana. Click here to view an itinerary of their trip. Standing in solidarity with our sisters and brothers in Christ from across the continent of Africa, John Hill, Marcia Owens and Tyler Edgar will actively bring the voice of U.S. churches alongside that of people and nations whose lives are at risk because of global climate change. Following this trip, in September an African delegation will visit the US to help raise awareness about the impacts of climate on those living in poverty. Please show your love by welcoming our brothers and sisters from Africa to the U.S. and join them in their effort to work for just solutions to climate change. Click here to sign a statement welcoming them and joining your voice with theirs, and here to encourage your friends to sign. The Kyoto Protocol was adopted in 1997 and committed 37 industrialized countries and the European community to The post-Kyoto talks (or “Bali Roadmap”) in Accra, Ghana are one of a series of ongoing negotiations designed to open the Kyoto Protocol to include commitments from the United States and other nations not included in Kyoto such as China and India. The hope is for a UN agreement that will succeed Kyoto to be in place by the end of 2009. While the NCC is focused on climate legislation to curb this country's emissions we know that real changes to global warming can only happen if there are international agreements where all participate and where all voices are heard. We hope our participation in the Ghana talks will encourage the United States to take a lead in the post-Kyoto negotiations and to make sure the voices of Africans are heard. A major part of the NCC’s work on U.S. climate change legislation is to call on the United States government to provide assistance to developing nations and vulnerable communities who are most impacted by climate change. These countries have done very little to create the problems that face all of God’s Creation as a result of greenhouse gas emissions. We believe it is our responsibility to care for those who will face the burdens caused by our fossil fuel based industrialized economy and that our government has a duty to help lessen the impact on our sisters and brothers in Africa. Our participation in the talks at Accra is an extension of this call and this concern. Join us as we stand in solidarity with Christians from around the world in the coming weeks.Click here to sign the solidarity statement. |
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