By ENews editorWednesday 09 July saw a mass lobby of Parliament to keep up the pressure on politicians about Climate Change.CAFOD is a key part of the coalition of organisations involved and CAFOD supporters from across the country descended on Westminster to try and talk to their own MP’s. A group of 3 people attending […]
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28 Feb – Climate Breakdown and the Military
by Tim DevereuxTim is a member of the Leeds Diocese pax Christi group and has recently stood down as chair of MAW (The Movement for the Abolition of War). It was Bruce Kent who first got me involved in the war/climate breakdown issue. I had been a member of CND and Pax Christi since the 70s, […]
‘Laudato Si’ and the Leeds Diocese conference & AGM 07 Nov 15
After John Battle (Chair) had taken us swiftly through what the Commission had been up in the last 12 months we moved into a half-day of hearing about, discussing and committing to action about Climate Change.Ellen Teague, catholic journalist and part of the Columban JPIC team, went through some of the key concepts in the […]
Climate Coalition Mass lobby of Parliament 17 June 2015
The Climate Coalition brought together hundreds of different organisations to take part in a mass lobby of MP’s to ensure that all our newly elected MP’s understood the strength of feeling in the country about the impacts of Climate Change and that we want the Government to support concrete action to reduce carbon emissions. At […]