Brockville Climate Action Group

These links are primarily to the guidance and statements of religious leaders from many different faiths. Members of these groups are urged to include their faith communities -- their buildings, their operations, their programs -- in their carbon reduction goals.

• Interfaith Power & Light

  "The IPL campaign is mobilizing a national religious response to global warming while promoting renewable energy, energy efficiency and conservation. People of faith have an opportunity to put their faith into action and help reduce the devastating effects of global warming."

• Greening Spirit

  "A gathering place for Anglicans of BC and the Yukon who share a passion for the stewardship of creation and are prepared to pledge action in its care. Calculate your household CO2 emissions, record a plan and pledge your reductions; record your parish goals and track your progress; share resources (photos, files, prayers, links, news, events, documentation and spreadsheets)"

• Faith & the Common Good

  "We have developed a whole resource kit – with workshops, posters, music, and more – to help faith groups reduce greenhouse gases and to live sustainably."

• An Evangelical Call to Action

  "We commend the four simple but urgent claims offered in this document to all who will listen, beginning with our brothers and sisters in the Christian community, and urge all to take the appropriate actions that follow from them ..."

• Global Anglican Congress on the Stewardship of Creation

  "Our planetary crisis is environmental, but it is more than that. It is a crisis of the Spirit and the Body, which runs to the core of all that we hold sacred. It is characterized by deep poverty: impoverished people, an impoverished Earth ..."

• United Church: Climate Change

  "The United Church of Canada, together with other churches in Canada and around the world, is deeply concerned about the issue of climate change. The churches view this as an issue with profound ethical dimensions ..."

• KAIROS: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives

  "As members of the international ecumenical community we are called to seek ways to demonstrate actively our solidarity with those most affected by climate change and to take responsibility for reducing our disproportionately high levels of accumulation of GHGs in the atmosphere and the imprint of our large ecological footprint."

• Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

  "The ELCA recognizes that the threat of "dangerous global warming, caused by the buildup of greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide" poses challenges to the entire world, and commits us as individuals, as a worship community, and as a public church, to address this serious threat to God’s creation."