Senior Advisor at the U.S. Department of Treasury for Inflation Reduction Act Implementation, Ronald Newman, recently addressed the 226th General Assembly’s Environmental and Climate Justice Committee. ( Learn more about the Inflation Reduction Act here.) The Committee then chose to share 10 minutes with Newman for their report to the whole assembly. That presentation can be… Read more »
June 28, 2024
Inflation Reduction Act for Churches
Senior Advisor at the U.S. Department of Treasury for Inflation Reduction Act Implementation, Ronald Newman, recently addressed the 226th General Assembly’s Environmental and Climate Justice Committee. ( Learn more about the Inflation Reduction Act here.) The Committee then chose to share 10 minutes with Newman for their report to the whole assembly. That presentation can be… Read more » 
Ahead of two major UN environmental conferences and responding to the intertwined biodiversity and climate crises, the World Council of churches has released a statement that calls upon churches, among others, to learn from Indigenous spiritualities and practices that safeguard biodiversity as well as to mobilise communities of faith to exert pressure and build political… 
Consider becoming a congregation-based community organizing group Congregation-based Community Organizing (CBCO) is a grassroots organizing approach for rebuilding communities, revitalizing congregations, and developing individuals into effective leaders and change agents. There are hundreds of CBCOs across the country, and gifts to the One Great Hour of Sharing offering allow PHP to fund these groups during… 
The provisional total for the 28th Conference on the Parties (COP28) suggests that 97,372 delegates registered to attend the summit in person. With a further 3,074 attending virtually, this takes the overall total to 100,446. These numbers easily make the Dubai event the largest COP in history. The first climate COP – held in Berlin… 
Several major announcements were made during Food, Agriculture and Water Day at COP28, demonstrating that many stakeholders and individual governments are committed to taking bold food-based climate action and restoring critical freshwater ecosystems. Joao Campari, Global Food Practice Leader, from the World Wildlife Federation (WWF) said: “Food systems transformation has certainly been a core agenda item at… 
A draft of the new commitments out of COP28 climate summit will not be enough on their own to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit), according to the International Energy Agency (IEA), as the talks headed into the final phase. So far, 130 countries have agreed to triple renewables and double the…