UU-UNO Climate Change Initiative: International Human Rights

By UUA International Resources

As part of our series on International Human Rights, we would like to highlight the important work of the Unitarian Universalist United Nations Office on Climate Change initiative.Climate change is posting an immediate and far-reaching threat to the basic elements of life for all people now and in future generations. It is time for us to avoid furthering the impacts of climate change. The UU-UNO is guided by our UU principles to respect and promote the interdependent web of existence, well being, peace and justice throughout the world. UU-UNO collaborates with other environmental agencies at the United Nations in order to promote climate change mitigation initiatives on a global scale and protect to protect our rights and those of future generations. On September 20, the UU-UNO helped to organize and co-sponsored The Climate Crisis: Which Way Out? event at All Souls Church, New York City. On September 21, the office members and interns participated in the inspirational People's Climate March with over 400,000 marchers from around the world. We lifted our voices, faith and values as one to save the earth. Read more about the People’s Climate March here. We host the UU-UNO Climate Portal, which was created by and is maintained by Dr. Jan Dash. The portal is a world-class website covering most of the wide ranging topics discussed at UN climate conferences. It contains educational information and current climate news on climate science, environmental impact, and mitigation/adaptation “what we can do” strategies, renewable energies, politics, negotiations, ethics. We updated the Lima Climate paper for the Lima Climate Conference in December focusing on sustainable strategies for adaptation and mitigation. The UU-UNO is participating in the Commit2Respond (C2R) initiative, which is a new UU climate justice campaign to accelerate the shift to clean, renewable energy, grow the climate justice movement, and advance the rights of marginalized communities. The program development groups initiated a collaborative process of developing General Assembly workshop proposals involving C2R’s partner organizations and beyond. The UU-UNO is facilitating the creation of networked Climate Action Teams (CATs), which are groups generating involvement in efforts together to mitigate climate change. Find more information about CATs on the UU-UNO Climate Portal and the instructions to start a CAT. To support our continued access to the highest levels of the United Nations and to the Canadian and American governments, please donate generously to the UU-UNO.

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