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Anglicans go green in drought-hit Canberra

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02 November 2006

THE WORLD is using 125 per cent of its renewable resources, the inaugural meeting of the Anglican Communion Environmental Network heard last week.

The meeting was in Canberra, Australia — a city experiencing  serious effects of global climate change. The Bishop of Canberra & Goulburn, the Rt Revd George Browning, who hosted the event, said that the area was in the grip of a drought unbroken for five years.

Professor Ian Lowe, who chairs the Australian Conservation Foundation, told delegates from 20 of the Communion’s 38 provinces that the political mindset of the developed world must change.

David Shreeve, of the Conservation Foundation in the UK, said: “When Tony Blair stands up and says what we’re doing environmentally, he speaks for a tiny island. The Archbishop of Canterbury could stand up and say, ‘We’ve got 75 million people trying to do something about it.’”

Bishop Browning said on Wednesday: “There is reasonable hope that we will now be able at least to ‘punch our weight’, and significantly influence the world community in what is a core matter of faith and morality for all who are followers of Jesus Christ.”

Assembly meeting. Climate change is also on the agenda of the Fifth Assembly of the European Christian Environmental Network (ECEN), which began a six-day meeting yesterday in Basel, Switzerland. Under the theme “The Churches’ Contribution to a Sustainable Europe”, groups of lay people, theologians, scientists, and MEPs from the Greek Orthodox, Protestant and Roman Catholic Churches are examining issues concerned with sustaining the ecological base of human life.

www.anglicancommunion.org

 

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