A local minister who took part in COP 28 (the 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference) has mixed feeling about the results. Deborah Walker, Minister of Connection and Social Justice at Shaughnessy Heights United Church, spent about a week as…
The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) released an alarming study November 20, just days before COP 28, the UN Climate Change Conference scheduled to run November 30 – December 12 in Dubai. The Emissions Gap report “finds that the world is heading…
Samuel Chiu took part in the two major worldwide gatherings focused on climate change late last year – COP27 (UN Framework for the Convention on Climate Change) in Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt and COP15 (UN Convention on Biological Diversity’s 15th COP…
Two Trinity Western University biology students will be taking part in COP27. They will join some 20,000 people from 195 nations for the annual UN Climate Change Conference at Sharm El Sheik, an Egyptian city in the south of the…
By all accounts, the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference is a massive and overwhelming welter of events. Tens of thousands of people from all corners of the world are gathered (October 31 – November 12) at the massive Scottish Event…
Four local people affiliated with A Rocha Canada will be taking part in COP26. The giant international gathering will focus on climate change from October 31 to November 12 in Glasgow. Expectations are high for the COP26 summit, which will…
‘Reducing emission to 50% by 2030’ ‘Net-zero by 2050’ ‘Leaders’ Summit on Climate’ In the last several months, the Canadian federal government has announced major legislative proposals on emission control and climate accountability, with new policies such as the increase…
Monica Tang will be participating in the Christian Climate Observers Program at the UN COP25 climate summit in Madrid, Spain, December 1 – 14. Following is a November 21 entry from her blog which explains why she is participating. My…
I’ve completed this week’s Church for Vancouver update at the Vancouver Airport and am sending it out from Japan. I’ll be away from October 22 until November 19. My wife Margaret and I are sharing a house in Tokyo (where…
The A Rocha BC Centre “is one of the jewels in the crown of A Rocha.” Ed Walker, who took on the role of Executive Director of A Rocha International in the fall of 2023, said he had heard a…