At the 2018 Synod a Climate Change Action Plan was accepted Recognising the threat that anthropogenic climate change poses to the health and wellbeing of all God’s creatures, including human beings, in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia and in all the Earth, for present and future generations. This Emphasized the Church’s mission to safeguard the integrity of creation and to sustain and renew the life of the Earth. Click here to download that plan. They acknowledge that Climate change is accelerating and can be largely attributed to human activity. It is already having damaging consequences, and the projected impacts over the 21st century and beyond are very large in scope, scale and cost. We need to act urgently to prevent disastrous consequences.

There is now a website devoted to Climate Change News. Their 3 top stories right now are:

• Brazil has a Tropical Forest Forever Facility fund that they are sure the donations to will reach $10b. This is a fund to channel private and public finance to developing nations to pay countries that keep their forests standing.
• Nepal’s disaster has laid bare the world’s adaptation accountability gap. A glacial drop that triggered the disaster should have been expected given climate change. Knowledge about accelerating climate risks and how to adapt to them has grown over the past 2 decades – it hasn’t been put into practice fast enough to protect communities.
• Jordan plans to build a vast desalination plant and send drinking water hundreds of kilometres across its arid interior to the capital, Amman - bolstering climate resilience and reducing reliance on Israel for the vital resource. But where are they getting the power to run it?

Here in New Zealand the latest climate change information is that our greenhouse gases this month hit and all time high. There has been a 30% increase since monitoring started in 1972.

This is the world that God created. Human beings as a species have been bad stewards. This has been recognized but some governments are reluctant to help fix things, as Christians we need to pray God has mercy on us, and to do what little things we can to save our planet because until the master returns to put it all right, we need to do the best we can to be "salt" the preservative for the planet.