Dear Friends,
March was a busy month for Operation Noah, from our announcement that a dozen bishops from the Church of Norway were publicly opposing the proposed North Sea Rosebank oil field – which is being developed Equinor, a company majority-owned by the Norwegian government – to our Ash Wednesday ‘No Faith in Fossil Fuels’ service and prayer vigil in London (covered here by Ellen Teague of Independent Catholic News).
Later in the month, we launched our Church land-use vision and campaign, which is calling on UK Church leaders to commit to achieving net zero land emissions by 2030 and meet seven targets, including protecting 30% of Church land for nature and restoring 100% of degraded peatland by 2030 (our Church land-use vision/ campaign was covered here by Joe Ware of the Church Times). We also hosted the first in a series of webinars on Church land use and announced that the Quakers in Britain had signed our Green Investment Declaration.
As the world becomes more chaotic and faces an almost endless series of challenges, it is easy for leaders to lose focus on the most urgent issue of our time, with some essentially denying that the climate crisis is even a crisis. But with your help, we can inspire the Church and wider society to work for a fair and fast transition away from fossil fuels and the restoration of nature.
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