Delegations from the ACT Alliance, Lutheran World Federation (LWF) and World Council of Churches (WCC) attended the United Nations climate conference in Marrakech, Morocco in November, jointly demanding a more rapid transition to a low-carbon economy based on clean energy in order to stem rising global temperatures.
The faith-based organisations were represented at the 22nd session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 22) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
On the opening day of the conference, the ACT Alliance expressed hope that the 2016 meeting should be an ‘action COP’ in which ‘the targets set out in the Paris agreement must now be fleshed out to ensure that the headlines are followed by ambitious rules’.