Faith for the Climate exists to encourage, inspire and equip faith communities in their work on the climate crisis. People of faith see our planet as a gift, and believe we have a sacred responsibility to show solidarity and support for those who have done the least to cause climate change but are suffering its worst impacts.
Many of our faiths and belief systems also share a “Golden Rule”: treat others as you wish to be treated. Faith communities have a unique and precious role to play – in our thought, speech, worship and action, alongside and in partnership with secular environmental organisations – enabling people of faith to live out their calling by acting to protect the climate.
Take Action
First steps
1) New to climate action, and wondering what first steps to take? JustTake the Jump
2) Sign the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty
3) Sign the petition to make ecocide an international crime
In your faith circles
1) Read about our faith-inspired principles of climate justice
2) Support the campaign by Zero Hourfor a Climate and Nature Bill
Other actions to support
1) Warm This Winter – a campaign to tackle the cost-of-living and climate crises together
2) The People’s Plan for Nature – a vision for the future of nature and what we can and must do to protect it.
News, reflections & analysis
Sign Our Open Letter Urging the UK Government to Make Polluters Pay
During Make Polluters Pay Action Week people from different faith traditions and communities across Britain gathered to bear witness to the unjust impacts of the climate crisis.
We bore witness to suffering the world over and called on the UK Government to Make Polluters Pay.
Add your voice to our call for climate justice.
Climate change, conflict and freedom of religion and belief
At our last network meeting we heard from representatives of Search for Common Ground detailed the findings of their recent report on climate, conflict and freedom of religion. In this blog, one of the co-authors of the report, Daniel Ekomo-Soignet, explains the importance of understanding climate as a conflict multiplier, how interfaith action can foster peace and resilience and some policy recommendations.
What’s at stake with a new UK government?
With the UK’s new Labour government taking office after 14 years of Conservative-led rule, our Movement Builder, Rosh Lal, reflects on what’s at stake in the years ahead.
Gallery: Faiths for climate justice elections
In the final days before the UK heads to the polls in 4 July, we’re sharing images of how our network has gathered and mobilised over these past crucial weeks.
Faith for the Climate and Quakers call on the UK to pay their fair share of climate finance
As leaders of the world’s richest countries prepare to meet at a G7 meeting in Italy, faith groups urge them to deliver new, adequate climate finance to developing countries.
Uniting for the Climate and Nature Bill
Ahead of the general election, Zero Hour tell us how faith communities have a unique opportunity to make a significant impact on the future of the UK’s climate policy.
“All life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
– Revd Dr Martin Luther King Jr (1929-1968), US Baptist minister, civil rights leader, and political thinker.
“When I marched in Selma (with Dr King), my feet were praying.”
– Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972), Jewish theologian, philosopher and US civil rights leader.