LTI has teamed up with Coexist House to stage this forum, to be held at St George’s House, Windsor in January 2020, with funding from Reckitt Trust and St George’s House.
Climate change and religious traditions share some common characteristics: both are complex and internally diverse. Climate change is a complex scientific matter but also has political, cultural and metaphysical dimensions. Religious traditions are not only internally diverse but have complex interactions with climate change. Eschewing a common denominator approach, the forum will seek to present some of this complexity and thereby create an event of mutual learning between religious and among religious traditions and the generation of fresh action by religious communities. Informed by expertise on climate change, the conference is therefore above all a forum for inter-religious engagement. Through a series of interactions its aim is to strengthen pedagogical processes and enable fresh action in the context of anthropogenic climate change at all levels in religious institutions.
28 confirmed participants, from Bahai, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam Judaism, and Sikhism—and representation from science, RNGOs, and the academy--will participate in this two day event.
