At a ‘creation care fair’ at St Cuthbert’s Church in Toronto, Anglicans and community members had opportunities to ask church and secular leaders how they were responding to the challenge of climate change, with many questions about whether or not the Anglican Church of Canada will divest from fossil fuel companies. Its General Synod will be making a decision about this in 2019. While the Canadian Church and government address environmental challenges, President Trump signed an executive order to return to coal fuel. The order directs the US Environmental Protection Agency to begin re-evaluating immediately the Clean Power Plan that was published just ahead of the 2015 UN Climate Change Conference in France. The Plan was to reduce US power plant emissions dramatically over 25 years, and was a bargaining tool when negotiating the Paris climate accord. See:
Canada / USA: climate change and fuel
Written by David Fletcher 07 Apr 2017Additional Info
- Pray: for the churches as they tackle climate change, and for California, New York, North Carolina and Iowa, which are moving forward on clean energy, despite the presidential executive order. (Ps. 24:1)
- More: www.anglicannews.org/news/2017/04/climate-change-discussed-in-toronto.aspx
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