Earth Day

This Earth Week, we are invited with ecumenical partners to Act, Learn, and Pray for Climate Justice.

The United Church of Canada is a founding member of For the Love of Creation, a national faith-based coalition for climate justice. It enables us to work together under one banner to mobilize education, reflection, action, and advocacy for climate justice.

Climate change impacts us, the local ecosystems of which we are part and partners. The United Church of Canada is connected with around the globe. The impacts of climate change are not borne equally or fairly between rich and poor, women and men, racialized and non-racialized, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, or older and younger generations. The greatest burden of climate change is falling on people in the Far North and global South—those who have contributed least to the problem.

Consequently, there has been a growing focus on climate justice, which looks at the climate crisis through a human rights lens and prioritizes responses and solutions that respect the rights and responsibilities of all peoples, expose and call to account the violations at the root of climate change, and move towards equity, justice and right relations with all people and the earth. Climate justice, racial justice, Indigenous justice, gender justice, and economic justice are all interconnected. The challenge is big, the stakes are high, and working together, we are stronger.