Inspired by participating in the Youth for Eco-Justice training, a joint project of the World Council of Churches (WCC) and the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) in Durban, South Africa last year, Kristi Holmberg started a “Climate Justice Campaign” which concluded successfully on 22 April, Earth Day.

Climate justice and the integrity of creation have been of concern to churches around the world. While stakeholders in the debate on climate change will gather at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development Rio+20 this year in June, the World Council of Churches (WCC) hopes for discussions to go beyond the narrow understandings of a green economy and the international framework for sustainable development.

"Hinduism teaches that everything on earth is the manifestation of God and the Hindu principles are closely linked to nature", said Dr N. Gopalakrishnan, director of Indian Institute of Scientific Heritage, in his keynote address at the session on Hinduism and Ecology at the international meeting on 'Religious response to ecological challenges' in Kerala, India.

Justice must be the guiding principle for the upcoming summit on sustainable development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, church organizations say.

Church-related organizations have contributed to a book on good practices in implementing the rights to water and sanitation that the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to drinking water and sanitation, Catarina de Albuquerque, has launched at the World Water Forum in Marseille, France.

To commemorate World Water Day, the World Council of Churches will be hosting a painting exhibition with the theme "Agua" (water) by renowned Argentine painter and artist, Néstor Favre-Mossier. His paintings will be displayed at the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva from 19 to 23 March.

Churches join more than 40 national and international NGOs in a “Call to Action” for the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation at the 6th World Water Forum taking place from 12-17 March 2012 in Marseille, France.

After two weeks of training on the theology and politics of ecological justice in Durban, South Africa, Christian youth from around the world have pledged to start, in their own contexts, initiatives that promote the new understandings they have acquired.

In a statement read on 9 December to government members from around the world at the United Nations climate summit in Durban, South Africa, the WCC reaffirmed the need for a fair, ambitious and binding treaty to effectively address climate change effects on vulnerable communities.

DURBAN/GENEVA, 8 December 2011 (LWI/LUCSA) – With international negotiations on climate change near collapse in Durban, South Africa, Christian youth from around the world offer hope by studying their Bibles and reflecting on justice issues involved in the care of creation.