Faiths for Climate Reparations

Do you want to know what “climate justice” means? Are you keen to find out how a justice-centered approach addresses the climate crisis? Are you looking for a welcoming space where you can bring your unique spiritual and/or religious motivations to tackle the climate emergency?

Reparations is now a core element of Britain Yearly Meeting’s central work. The topic is wide-ranging, and this course seeks to explore the links with climate breakdown. This course is designed to help you address these questions and feel part of a community of action.

Shanon Shah from Faith for the Climate will share some practical, interfaith examples of climate reparations work. Their diverse network provides unique opportunities:
• To understand the root causes of climate breakdown and how it is connected with other forms of injustice.
• To offer a model of collaboration that draws upon our deepest personal inspirations and lived experiences as people of faith.

In Session 1
Shanon will share an in-depth example that can help us identify the concrete historical and political factors that have given rise to demands for climate reparations. We will also refer to a framework that can help us analyse this and other examples systematically.

Resources to read, watch and reflect on will be shared between sessions.

In Session 2
We will reconvene to address any questions or concerns that may have arisen in the intervening time, then move into a worship-sharing space of deep reflection, and perhaps moving towards discerning our next steps.

This course is part of a series exploring re-visioning, click here to discover other courses in this series.