Climate change 'refugee' seeks asylum from rising seas | smh.com.au

A refugee and his family seek to stay in New Zealand so they can escape the flooding of their island home.

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Anglican Church leads the way in fossil fuel divestment | Scoop News

Five Anglican Dioceses in New Zealand exercise moral leadership to withdraw investments. 

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News - Climate change is moral crisis: CCC to Minister of the Environment

The CCC asks the Canadian Government to come up with an "ambitious long-term plan that will be more effective in slowing the climate crisis". 

News - Climate change is moral crisis: CCC to Minister of the Environment

Letter of the Canadian Council of Churches to the Honourable Leona Aglukkaq

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Covenant and care--a baptismal promise to safeguard creation

General Synod acts on requests from families. The Baptismal Covenant will now call for those being baptized to become stewards of creation.

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Top Anglicans Support Post-Millennium Development Goals

Primates Fred Hiltz and Bernard Ntahoturi

The first ever cross-Province webinar in the Anglican Communion discussed proposals for creating new Millennium Development Goals in 2015. During the debate Archbishop Ntahoturi said "Women's empowerment and participation, as well as environmental issues need to be addressed adequately if we are to eradicate poverty". Such important human issues need to be mutually supportive. Archbishop Ntahoturi was joined by Archbishop Mauricio Andrade of Brazil, Lord Mark Malloch-Brown, former deputy general secretary of the UN and Dr. David Hallam. 

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The Lake Huron Centre For Coastal Conservation - Beach Clean-Ups

The Coastal Centre on September 14, 2013 will mark the 20th Anniversary of the “Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup". Special celebrations will be held in 20 public shoreline clean-ups including Goderich. The September 14th cleanup celebration takes place at the Main Beach in Goderich, at 11 am. The aim is to clean up about 6.5 km of beach and a segment of the Maitland River where it enters Lake Huron.


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