Faith Focused Climate Cafes at COP26
Join the Climate Cafe Multifaith for two faith-focused COP26 Climate Cafes during COP this week. Climate Cafes are opportunities for everyday people as well as those who are involved in climate or COP to drop in for virtual friendship and conversation.
A whole lot happened this week at COP26.
November 11 (11am PT / 2pm ET / 6pm GMT) register for a virtual conversation about faith and COP26 hosted by the Climate Cafe Multifaith as we get caught up, talk about what happened so far, and share aspirations & realities for this next week.
Photo by Climate Cafe at the March for Climate Justice in Glasgow.
November 11th:
#2 Multifaith Pop-Up Cafe Thursday, November 11th at 11am Pacific Time (2pm Eastern Time / 6pm GMT)
This November 11th Climate Cafe will be hosted by the Climate Cafe Multifaith, a US based Cafe. Our co-host is William H. Morris who is attending COP26 with the Christian Climate Observers Program. We are looking forward to other voices, too, from folks attending in Scotland. This virtual Cafe welcomes people from all over the world who would like to come for a conversation around climate, faith, and COP26. Register.
Week Two is all about the negotiations and agreements. Catch up quickly, from The Climate Reality Project, addressing COP26 week two.
Also a new article in The Guardian today, an interview with Katharine Hayhoe, You have the ability to use your voice.
Song. Scottish musicians invited musicians the world over to Let it Grow and make music for the climate. The page includes links shared by others, as well.
Photo by Climate Cafe at the March for Climate Justice in Glasgow.
Thank you to co-host Barak Gale and those who attended the Global Live Climate Cafe Sunday, November 7th at 11:00am Pacific Time / 2:00pm Eastern time (7pm GMT), hosted from Glasgow by the Climate Cafe Team. This Cafe was sponsored in part by the Climate Crisis Film Festival. Their featured 10 minute film for the evening is The Pleasure of Killing Bugs.
And also, Climate Cafes have partnered with The Climate Crisis Film Festival. You can view their many films during COP. These films were created all over the world. This film, The film, The Pleasure of Killing Bugs, deals with religion directly. It is 10 minutes, from Brazil, features a nun and priest, and asks the question 'Is this God's plan?' There are other films on the site, too, which can be viewed during COP.
COP26 and The Climate Cafes and their partners such as The Climate Reality Project are not faith organizations. Yet they have welcomed a broad coalition of involvement which has included people of faith.
And people of faith have been present and vocal at COP26. Big faith organizations such as ACT Alliance, QINO, World Lutheran Federation, United Methodist Global Missions, and Christian Climate Observers have long been involved. This time around it was the grass roots effort that added a groundswell of energy. People of faith are following a moral compulsion to get involved, participating in marches, vigils, services, conversations, pilgrimage and more. For more information about the work and hopes of people of faith for COP26, see Faith & COP26 - a Briefing from Glasgow. Guest Adrian Shaw, EcoCongregations and Interfaith Scotland.
The Climate Cafes are grass roots conversations, and are just one of many ways people can share that groundswell together. The Climate Cafes were popping up at COP26 and virtually, with faith-focus Cafes as well as youth, energy, and other focuses.
Climate Cafes, supported by the Scottish government and partnering with The Climate Reality Project, The Climate Crisis Film Festival and others, are taking place every day at COP26. The schedule includes two Cafes with a focus especially for faith. For more events and faith-based links, check out our Cafe Multifaith virtual information sheet.
For more on Climate Cafes, link to the Climate Cafe HUB, started in Scotland. Look also to the Climate Cafe Multifaith page and blog for Cafe schedules and articles addressing faith and climate.
Rev. Richenda Fairhurst is here for the friendship and conversations about climate, community, and connection. She organizes the Climate Cafe Multifaith as a co-leader of Faiths4Future. Find her in real life in Southern Oregon, working as Steward of Climate with the nonprofit Circle Faith Future.