Did you know that Churches are some of the largest landowners in the UK? 

And yet Church-owned land is causing environmental degradation: pesticide runoff from agricultural land pollutes our rivers, degraded peatland emits carbon dioxide, and a lack of biodiversity contributes to the nature crisis. *While we applaud commitments from national Church bodies to decarbonise their buildings, the Church of England’s land alone is likely to produce more planet-heating emissions than all of its church buildings combined. 

This is why we are calling on all UK Churches – from the Methodists to the Church of Scotland – to ensure that Church land is part of the solution, not part of the problem. We are now inviting you to sign our Open Letting calling for action on Church land – a letter which we will deliver to Church leaders on 5 June 2025, World Environment Day. 

Sign our Open Letter to Church leaders here. 

PS: If you would like to join us in either Cardiff, York, Edinburgh, or London on 5 June as we deliver our letter to national Church leaders, please email us at . 

PPS: To help us get more signatures, could you also forward this email to friends and contacts, as well as share the Open Letter on social media? You can find a post about our Open Letter on BlueSky, X, Facebook and LinkedIn – just click the links to see our post and share.

*The most recent data shows that while 119,000 tonnes of CO2 equivalent (tCO2e) was emitted as a result of energy use by all Church of England church buildings in 2021, 140,000 tCO2e was estimated by the Church Commissioners to have been emitted from their land in 2022.