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What is the Anglican Alliance doing in the area of safeguarding creation?

The Anglican Alliance’s connecting, equipping and inspiring work in relation to safeguarding creation incudes…

  • Activities by the Regional Facilitators to build capacity locally – for example, helping convene climate justice workshops.
    Below: Middle East consultation on climate change, which Joel Kelling helped convene with ACT Alliance.

  • Educating church leaders about climate change and equipping them for advocacy and influencing within their nations and regions. For example, ahead of COP26 we helped facilitate a series of webinars with the Anglican Communion Environmental Network and the Anglican Communion Office at the United Nations.
  • Developing and sharing resources for education, inspiration and shaping hearts and minds. Examples include our climate emergency hub and partnering with other Anglicans on Preaching for God’s World, sermon notes linking the Sunday lectionary readings with caring for all creation.
  • Endeavouring to change the narrative on climate change and creation care. Sharing insights from the Prophetic Indigenous Voices on the Planetary Crisis series, which we helped to promote, we highlight the need to turn away from (repent of) a mentality of extraction, which regards the earth as a commodity that can be used and exploited without regard for the consequences, and embrace one of relationship, which recognises kinship, connection and interdependence.
  • Engaging and collaborating with a wide range of partners, including Renew Our World, Tearfund, Christian Aid, A Rocha, the ACT Alliance and the Season of Creation coalition.
  • Connecting people across the Communion for disaster response and equipping them for greater resilience and disaster response capacity.
  • We played a leading role in developing the Communion Forest initiative, a legacy of the 2022 Lambeth Conference. The Communion Forest continues to be a significant part of our work as we sustain the initiative with staff time and finance, incubating it in partnership with the Anglican Communion Environmental Network (ACEN).

  • Helping bring the voices, experiences and solutions of people directly affected by the environmental crises into high level political spaces, such as the Conference of the Parties (COPs) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (see here: COP26 engagement, COP26 reflection, COP27 part 1, COP7 part 2, COP28,COP29) the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) (see here) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and advocating in these spaces for change. We do this in collaboration with the Anglican Communion United Nations Office.
  • Sharing stories and examples of good practice, which can encourage others to undertake similar initiatives.