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Why COP26 is key - Part 2

Interview by Sarah Parkinson.

Part 2 of our interview with Julia Kendal about why COP26 is so important.

Why COP26 is key - Part 1

Interview by Sarah Parkinson

The year 2020 was supposed to be the year our world consolidated its commitment to take on climate change. Last year marked five years since the landmark Paris climate agreement, where the world came together in support of limiting global warming to 1.5℃ above pre-industrial levels by 2030. The 2020 United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP26, was to be held last November in Glasgow, UK, but has been rescheduled to 1-12 November 2021.

We recently sat down with Julia Kendal, Senior Policy Associate from Tearfund UK’s Global Advocacy Team, to learn why this rescheduled COP26 is so vital in addressing climate change and how the global church can get involved in the lead up.

Latin America speaks up for the environment

By Sarah Parkinson

Despite all the health and socioeconomic challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic across Latin America, Renew Our World continues to advocate for the protection of our planet.

Supporting migrants and agricultural workers in Peru

By Sarah Parkinson

Paz y Esperanza (Peace and Hope) leads the Renew Our World campaign in Peru. Amidst the pandemic and recent political turbulence in the country, Paz y Esperanza has been providing support to vulnerable migrant and agricultural workers.

This is Renew Our World’s Act page, with lots of prayer ideas, lifestyle actions, and ways to speak up.

Play your part in renewing our world!

Click here for more about single use plastic waste, and here to find out more about other actions you can take to tackle climate change.

We can all play a part in bringing this transformation by speaking up, praying and changing our lives. Here are some ways we can do that:

Pray

If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14 (NIV)

Join us in prayer for God to move and bring healing to our world. We’ve produced some guides to inspire you in prayer by yourself or with others. Click on the links below or visit our Resource section

Here is a prayer guide we have produced with 24-7 Prayer with creative prayer ideas, and a guide for setting up a prayer space.
’Prayers for our world’ has prayers and prayer points from many countries on justice, climate change and renewing our world.
Here is scripture guided prayer on climate change.
Do you want to turn your prayer into worship? Here is a worship toolkit where you’ll find tips and ideas to organise a worship moment in your church or community, including singing the Renew Our World worship song!
Season of Creation have a huge range of prayer and worship resources from many church traditions

Lord, Renew our spirits and cleanse our hearts. Renew our minds and transform our lives. Renew our cities and rebuild our ruins. Renew our world, in your name we pray, Amen

Lifestyle

We can all make changes to how we live to reduce our impact on the earth. Here are some suggestions:

Choose more sustainable food – for example, plan meals to avoid waste, choose food grown more locally, reduce the amount of meat you eat, grow your own food
Choose cleaner energy – for example, switch to a clean energy provider in your household or church, only heat or cool rooms when you plan to use them
Choose a greener lifestyle – walk, bike or use public transport, fly less, buy second hand clothes or clothes that come from a fair and sustainable production chain, reduce, reuse and then recycle
Could you encourage your church/group/community to:
Start a vegetable garden
Introduce a ‘farming God’s way’ approach
Switch to a clean energy provider or install solar panels
Use cups, plates and cutlery that can be reused
Do car sharing

For further inspiration check out these resources:

This resource outlines actions to take each day as a Carbon Fast.
Our friends at Tearfund Action also have a number of lifestyle actions here.
Living the Change, from the WEA’s Creation Care Taskforce.

Act

Join in our campaigning for companies to do more to tackle single-plastic waste.
Get your church thinking and taking action – take the Live Justly course in small groups.
What action is your local or national government taking to tackle climate change? Could you write to a government representative to ask them to do more?

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