Online Training on the legal tools for climate justice “Hope for Children”

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Online Training on the legal tools for climate justice “Hope for Children”

Online training on the legal tools for climate justice will introduce the newly published resource "Hope for Children Through Climate Justice: Legal Tools to Hold Financiers Accountable,” providing churches and communities essential legal tools to hold financial actors accountable for their role in perpetuating the climate crisis.

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Title of the resource — Resource "Hope for Children Through Climate Justice: Legal Tools to Hold Financiers Accountable" introduces communities to climate litigation, a rapidly growing and impactful way of addressing the climate crisis and protect the rights of young people and future generations.

This online training is proposed for anyone who is interested in contributing to tangible hope for children by addressing the root causes of the climate emergency by using the legal landscape.

When: 15 April 2025, 14.00 CET
Where: online, register here

The training will provide an introduction to the new WCC resource "Hope for Children Through Climate Justice,” which includes legal tools adapted to various contexts and capacities. The session will include examples and testimonials on powerful yet under-utilised levers to accelerate climate solutions.

Grounded in faith, the handbook aims to plant seeds for intergenerational justice, and empower people of good will to protect the lives of children and future generations. “If you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you” (Matthew 17:20).

WCC publishes resource on legal tools for climate justice (WCC news release, 24 March 2025)

Publication "Hope for Children Through Climate Justice: Legal Tools to Hold Financiers Accountable"