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.

Our new King is very much a greenie and well aware of the issues of climate change and while still Prince of Wales did all he could to educate and promote programs and attitudes that would help the planet.

There is now a website devoted to Climate Change News. They report that the U.N. Climate Change Conferences have been making a serious difference. The main story there currently is that a rainforest fund, fighting De-forestation has been set up, it is called the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF). The fund will help forest-rich nations to fight de-forestation, that's good news.

The bad news is ocean acidification is worsening, and a study found 96% of the world's oceans experienced extreme heatwaves in 2023.

The only environmental story in mainstream news in New Zealand currently is a seriously concerning report on pollution by microplastics causing a massive increase in bowel cancer among younger people. NZ Scientists are saying it is most likely being caused by microplastics consumed in our diet through plastic water bottles and milk bottles. This may push a further reduction in plastic use.

This is the world that God created. Human beings as a species have been bad stewards. We have been the steward who ‘says to himself “my master is taking a long time in coming,” and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink and get drunk.’ (Luke 12:45). The servant being beaten is our planet. This has been recognized and governments are now acting 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.