Month: November 2024

  • Climate Justice and COP29

    Climate Justice and COP29

    “We confess that the negative impacts resulting from the degradation of the natural world have fallen disproportionately on marginalized communities, including indigenous tribes, religious and ethnic communities, people living in poverty, and other vulnerable groups. We, therefore, pledge to resist all forms of environmental exploitation, neglect, and inequality…We oppose policies and practices that relegate marginalized

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  • Fossil Fuel Divestment as Climate Change Strategy

    Fossil Fuel Divestment as Climate Change Strategy

    A Cobb and Friends Presentatiowith Sharon Delgado YouTube recording of Fossil Fuel Divestment as Climate Change Strategy, October 15, 2024. United Methodist preacher, author, and long-time climate justice activist Sharon Delgado proclaims God’s tangible presence in and through creation and the glory of a sacramental universe, but she contends that we face a reckoning as

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  • COP 29: A Perilous Moment of Choice

    COP 29: A Perilous Moment of Choice

    Image by Laurie Bayen See the sign-on letter to world leaders below In 1992 I was part of the United Methodist delegation to Rio de Janeiro during the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, where George HW Bush signed the Framework Convention on Climate Change, the foundational climate treaty. At that conference, the nations

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