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Ecumenical Decade of Climate Justice

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The World Council of Churches has proclaimed the Ecumenical Decade of Climate Justice (2025-2034). It is a bold invitation from the World Council of Churches and ecumenical partners worldwide to undertake a pilgrimage of repentance, renewal, and action to confront the climate emergency with courage, hope, and love.

Link to WCC brochure:

https://www.oikoumene.org/sites/default/files/2025-11/Ecumenical%20Decade%20Of%20Climate%20Justice%20Action%20Web.pdf

Our Vision for 2034

By the close of this Decade, we envision:

• Churches Leading by Example: Eco-sanctuaries,
climate-centred worship, and pensions invested in life

• Policy Breakthroughs: Ecocide recognized as a crime, fossil fuel phase-out underway, climate finance, justice, and reparations advanced

• Resilient Communities: Indigenous, youth, women,
and frontline communities shaping solutions

• An Economy of Life: Alternatives to extractive
capitalism, rooted in equity, justice, and sustainability

How We Will Journey

The Decade will move forward through six concrete pathways:

1. Transform Theology and Worship – eco-theologies,
creation liturgies, and spiritual disciplines.

2. Promote Holistic Analysis – connecting climate with
justice, economics, race, and gender

3. Equip Faith Communities – toolkits, trainings, and
climate chaplains

4. Mobilize Collective Action – pilgrimages, days of
action, and global campaigns

5. Advocate for Systemic Change – prophetic witness in
courts, policies, and public spaces

6. Invest in Grassroots Solutions – funding local
adaptation, biodiversity protection, and renewable energy

Who Is Involved

This is a whole-church, whole-world journey:

  • WCC member churches and global ecumenical partners
    leading locally and globally.
  • Regional and national ecumenical bodies, contextualizing action.
  • Denominations and seminaries shaping theology and
    discipleship.
  • Interfaith partners joining in shared action.
  • Youth, women, Indigenous peoples, migrants, and
    emerging leaders at the heart of vision and leadership in WCC
    member churches leading locally and globally

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Global faith campaign for climate justice launched by World Council of Churches

Commission on Climate Justice and Sustainable Development

The World Council of Churches created the Commission on Climate Justice and Sustainable Development (CCJSD) to address the climate crisis and promote efforts to achieve the UN’s sustainable development goals. The WCC is an ecumenical fellowship of 352 churches from more than 120 countries, representing over 580 million Christians worldwide. WCC members include most of the world’s Orthodox churches, scores of Anglican, Baptist, Lutheran, Methodist and Reformed churches, and many United and Independent churches.

The Commission serves as a platform for faith-rooted and evidence-based actions responding to the impacts and roots of the intertwined ecological and economic emergencies. The commission mobilizes member churches to take urgent, effective, and holistic actions to respond to the climate emergency and broader economic and ecological crises in collaboration with other like-minded actors. The commission calls attention to gaps and challenges in addressing issues of ecological and economic injustice — and proposes concerted, effective, and timely action by member churches and ecumenical partners in their communities, countries, and
internationally.

The Commission operates through several working groups: Climate Justice; Economy of Life; Creation and Biodiversity Justice; Land, Water and Food Justice; and Ecumenical Diakonia and the Sustainable Development Goals. Each working group has commenced its work and is guided by an annual action plan. The Land, Water, and Food Justice working group, e.g., will be convening a global consultation on 29 May in Geneva to address critical interlinkages between land, water, and food security through a rights-based approach. To register, click https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcvdu2spjwoHtdyAQPdMuV6lco5hBNoBClm#/registration. For more information, visit https://oikoumene.org/events/wcc-consultation-on-interconnected-challenges-of-land-water-and-food

Share your best practices to protect the environment.

Does your faith community use solar power, have a bioswale or a pollinator garden, use water conserving landscaping, employ LED lighting, provide wildlife habitat?

Let everyone know what you do to care for Creation!