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Bishop Ingeborg Midttømme. Photo: Marcelo Schneider/WCC

Sustainable resourcing for sustainable development

Bishop Ingeborg Midttømme, from the Church of Norway, serves at the diocese of Møre, in the northwestern part of the Scandinavian country. She is also a board member of Norwegian Church Aid. Over the past years, she has been an active participant in international events that focus on the global agenda on sustainable development, such as the United Nations annual climate conferences.

05 February 2019
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The 5th Annual Symposium on the Role of Religion and Faith-Based Organizations in International Affairs was held at the UN headquarters, in New York. Photo: Marcelo Schneider/WCC

WCC co-sponsored event at the UN focuses on ethical financing for development

“Financing for sustainable development represents the expression of an ethic of solidarity and sharing, including with generations that come after us and who will inherit whatever good or evil we have wrought”, said Peter Prove, director of International Affairs at the World Council of Churches (WCC) in a symposium at the United Nations headquarters, in New York, on 29 January.

29 January 2019
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5th Annual Symposium on the Role of Religion and Faith Based Organizations in International Affairs

29 January 2019

On Tuesday, 29 January 29 2019, the Fifth Annual Symposium on the Role of Religion and Faith-based Organizations in International Affairs will focus on financing for sustainable development and build on this vision of an economy of life as the flourishing of all life. Panel discussions will consider the broad issues of economic justice as addressed in the course of human rights-based development, governance and accountability in the global financial architecture, the implications for environmental sustainability, gender justice and financing social protection.

Conference Room 2, United Nations secretariat, New York
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"Climate Justice is at the Heart of Just Transitions" - Statement from the faith communities to the Plenary of the High Level Ministerial Segment of COP24

Statement from the faith communities to the Plenary of the High Level Ministerial Segment of the 24rd Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP24), the 14th Session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP14) - United Nations Climate Change Conference Katowice, Poland December 2018

14 December 2018
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Kennedy, Grape and MacDonald during a WCC panel at the Parliament of the World’s Religions. Photo: Canadian Council of Churches

WCC advocates for climate justice at the Parliament of the World’s Religions

“We must lift the veil on our beguilement with consumerist culture and materialistic values”, said Bishop Mark MacDonald, the National Indigenous Bishop of the Anglican Church of Canada and president of the World Council of Churches (WCC) for North America, as he addressed a panel promoted by the WCC at the 2018 sessions of the Parliament of the World’s Religions, held in Toronto, Canada, 1-7 November.

08 November 2018