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Focusing on how to take action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and contribute to real change in the lives of communities through new forms of development, a 12-15 April WCC/Christian Aid consultation in London worked to determine elements of a common platform for churches' involvement in the UNFCCC COP 13 climate change negotiations in Brazil next November-December.
For the WCC climate change working group, such elements, or benchmarks, relate, for example, to Northern societies' responsibilities in relation to climate change, and how Southern societies can pursue their legitimate development goals.
Consultation participants - representatives of church-related relief and development agencies - also discussed concrete projects to rehabilitate water resources on the slopes of Mt Kenya, churches' involvement in a huge scheme for rainwater harvesting in Brazil, or small projects for renewable energy in India and China.
Convinced that "You reach people's hearts and minds through music," the WCC climate change working group is inviting musicians to compose songs on climate change and earth community to accompany forthcoming activities, like an inter-faith event in Uppsala in November 2008 that will mark the 40th anniversary of the WCC's assembly there in 1968.
