The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) which works with Faith Organisations, has released a note about Carbon in infrastructure. The research looks in detail at the influence of infrastructure on climate action across energy, transport, water, solid waste, digital communications and buildings sectors. The report is available here.
A Guest Essay on the ENB SDG knowledge base website makes this issue a bit clearer: The buildings and construction sector must urgently be decarbonized through a triple strategy: Reducing energy demand, decarbonizing the power supply, and addressing embodied carbon stored in building materials. Read this essay here.
The Working Group I contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report addresses the most up-to-date physical understanding of the climate system and climate change, bringing together the latest advances in climate science, and combining multiple lines of evidence from paleoclimate, observations, process understanding, and global and regional climate simulations. The Summary for Policy Makers, the Full Report, Errata, Interactive Atlas and Outreach Materials are available here. The Summary for Policy Makers is sober reading.
The Parliament of the World’s Religions meets every five years. The Parliament has a Climate Task Force and a web page with wide-ranging activities. Visit the Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religions Climate Action page here.
The Quaker Statement on Climate Change has been added to the site. However, we may add more as we found the Quaker Declaration on the Environment!
Scottish Interfaith Week has the theme Together for Our Planet. Scottish Interfaith Week – hosted by Interfaith Scotland and Interfaith Glasgow – will run from 31 October – 7 November 2021. Many events are planned. A Digital Toolkit for Scottish Interfaith Week is available here.
Climate Action by the Parliament of the World’s Religions
