Welcome to the Faith For The Climate library. Browse through our blog, reflections and webinar videos to learn something new.
Reflections
Where we take a moment to sit back and think about some of the big moments we’ve had and what’s happening in the world.
- November 2020
- July 2025
- October 2021
- May 2022
- December 2021
- March 2023
Newsletters
Here’s the archive for our much-loved monthly newsletter. Want to read our latest one?
Webinars
Explore our back catalogue of webinars. We bring together faith leaders and speakers from different backgrounds to exchange their point of view on a particular climate change issue.
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Climate and nature - local actions
Climate and nature - local actions
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This is a recording of our May 2023 network gathering at Faith for the Climate. We discussed the role faith communities can have in nature restoration and biodiversity protection.
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Catherine Ross explains the steps that the Church of England has taken as a matter of policy and the measures taken by parish churches to decarbonise.
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Aydin Dikerdem from the New Economics Foundation explains the Great Homes Upgrade campaign and how people of faith in the UK can suppor it.
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Climate, nature, and global justice
Climate, nature, and global justice
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This is a recording of two presentations at our July network gathering, which focused on how people of faith in the UK can get involved in campaigns to end fossil fuel insurance and finance.
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Meryne Warah, Global Director of Organising at GreenFaith International, shows us what “loss and damage” means from the lived experiences in Kenya. Shared at our Faith for the Climate network gathering on 8 Sept 2022.
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Adam McGibbon, UK lead campaigner at Market Forces, explains why it’s imperative to focus on banks and insurers in the UK when thinking about fossil fuels and the climate crisis.
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Olivia Hanks, Climate Justice Lead at Quakers in Britain, explains the issue of loss and damage due to climate breakdown. Find out how faith groups can contribute by supporting the Make Polluters Pay campaign.
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The year 2024 was marked by ecological and geopolitical horrors, not to mention yet another disappointing UN climate conference, COP29. This webinar injects so much needed faith for climate justice by focusing on a pivotal campaign people of faith can support over the coming months and years to safeguard the future of people and planet: the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty.
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In the leadup to Make Polluters Pay Action Day, 23 September 2023, faith leaders, representatives and activists around the world share why they are upholding climate justice.
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This is a recording of the first of our two-part series of webinars, organised in collaboration with Quakers in Britain in conjunction with the Great Big Green Week, which focused on discerning the difference between false and real climate solutions.
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This is a recording of the second of our two-part series of webinars, organised in collaboration with Quakers in Britain in conjunction with the Great Big Green Week, which focused on discerning the difference between false and real climate solutions.
To view a transcript of this video, click on the YouTube link in the bottom right corner and open the grey box that has the video description. Scroll down and press ‘Show Transcript’.
In this webinar, we collated burning questions from our network about COP30 and put these to some brilliant experts in our network from different faith backgrounds who were there in Brazil. They joined us at this webinar to give behind-the-scenes updates and deeper insights. They contextualised not only COP30’s specific limitations and failures, but also its specific successes and opportunities that we can all build on.
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Interfaith and intrafaith resources
Interfaith and intrafaith resources
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Faith for the Climate was pleased to host this special interfaith webinar where we heard from our members of Dharmic faiths who shared perspectives on how Diwali connects with climate and environmental justice for them.
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Our Jewish, Christian and Muslim panellists shared insights about how Tu Bishvat, Lent, and Ramadan can nourish our work on climate justice as well as foster healthier intra-faith and interfaith relations.
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The Buddhist festival of Wesak falls at the end of May and effectively ushers in Buddhist Action Month in June every year. What better way to inspire A Million Acts of Hope than to find out what our Buddhist members are passionate about and what they’re up to?
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As part of our webinar on ‘Climate Change, Conflict and Faith-Inspired Action’ Lizzie Nelson explains the findings of the Search for Common Ground report: ‘Climate Change, Conflict and Freedom of Religion and Belief’.
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Faith for the Climate held our autumn 2024 network meeting during the Global Week of Action for Peace and Climate Justice.
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At the start of #GreatBigGreenWeek 2024, leaders, representatives, and activists of different faiths and beliefs came together to send a united message to our politicians.
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Here, we heard from Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, and Christian communities in the UK on the power of prayer, meditation, and reflection, and the unity of our voices for climate action.
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