According to the Paris Agreement, the GGA aims for parties
to enhance adaptive capacity and resilience;
to reduce vulnerability, with a view to contributing to sustainable development;
and ensuring an adequate adaptation response in the context of the goal of holding average global warming well below 2 degrees Celsius and pursuing efforts to hold it below 1.5 degrees Celsius.
The side event provides a forum to discuss urgent adaptation action from science, practice, and policy perspectives, building the global understanding of adaptation and shaping multilateral momentum.
It advocates for effective adaptation policies at the core of global climate decision-making and for ensuring gender justice.
Speakers:
James Bhagwan (Pacific Conference of Churches)
Adriana Vásques (La Ruta del Clima)
Patricia Nying'uru (IPCC Focal Point, Kenya & G77 Science focal point)
“God’s creation is threatened,” said the Leading Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany, Kristina Kühnbaum-Schmidt, in her call to use Lent to consider “how we can be more frugal and mindful in our use of resources.”
What tasks and actions arise for the LWF member churches from the message and other results of the Thirteenth Assembly? Two German churches explored this together at a joint event.
Preserving habitats for people and nature and experiencing hope and energy in the process is what Bishop Bilz and youth from the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony, Germany, experienced in a joint project.
LWF and partners applaud steps towards establishment of a legally binding global tax convention to save billions of dollars in lost revenues for development, social and environmental protection
With an ecumenical ceremony at the top of Germany’s highest mountain peak, churches drew attention to the effects of climate change. The requiem for a dying glacier marked the rapid disappearance of the ice caps of the Alps.
Harvest Thanksgiving recalls the close connection between human beings, God and nature. On this occasion, the Evangelical Church in Central Germany calls for economically stable, socially and ecologically compatible agriculture.
The leading bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany, Kristina Kühnbaum-Schmidt, said churches in the global North must address the “uncomfortable questions” regarding climate justice.
