The World Responds to Paris Accord

“With or without the participation of our government leaders, Christians remain determined to meet our collective climate goals.”

– Creation Justice Ministries Executive Director Shantha Ready Alonso

Here’s how religious and community groups responded to the Paris accord announcement:

Evangelical Environmental Network
Young Evangelicals for Climate Action
Friends Committee on National Legislation
U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB)
Catholic Leaders
Sisters of Mercy
Catholic Relief Services
Interfaith Power and Light
Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
Episcopal Church
Maryknoll
Religious Action Center for Reform Judaism
Church World Service
Faith in Place
Franciscan Action Network
United Church of Christ

COEJL Chairman Rabbi Fred Dobb: “We just ensured massive suffering for our own descendants, consigned untold people and ecosystems to ruin, deepened social inequity and injustice, demeaned facts, ceded global leadership, and decided that ‘love your neighbor as yourself’ is irrelevant and unimportant. Now we’re in the company of only Syria and Nicaragua, against the rest of the world, outside of the Paris Accord. It’s a shameful day to be an American.”

Creation Justice Ministries Executive Director Shantha Ready Alonso: “With or without the participation of our government leaders, Christians remain determined to meet our collective climate goals. It is not in our nature to behave with indifference toward the cries of creation. We refuse to turn our backs on our neighbors who are suffering most from an increasingly dangerous climate.”