11 November, 2025
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MEDIA ADVISORY
Belem, Brazil: An important aspect of the discussion around climate change and climate justice that the Brazilian presidency has brought to COP30 is the ethical dimension. The Global Ethical Stocktake process is bringing together many voices on this issue. People of faith and faith leaders around the world are also bringing their voices and experience in the ethical and moral space to the discussions of how we can achieve climate justice, and this press conference represents an opportunity for several of them to speak into this issue.
85% of the world’s population ascribe to a faith tradition. Members of these faith communities work at the local, regional, national, and international levels to pursue climate justice. The Interfaith Liaison Committee brings together faith constituencies working to achieve climate justice to raise their voices together and share their stories from their traditions and experiences around the world.
What: Bringing an ethical lens and practical experiences to the negotiations around adaptation, NDCs, the Baku to Belem roadmap, and the issue of debt
Who:
Ruth Alesandra Choque Huanca, Bolivia / Bolivian Evangelical Lutheran Church
Bishop Dr. Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, Germany, World Council of Churches
Irene Anena, Uganda, ACT Alliance
Nicolas Rosenthal, Argentina, ACT Alliance
Rev. Henrik Grape, World Council of Churches – Moderator
Where: Press Conference Room 2 Area D and online
When: Tuesday, November 11, 2025 16:30-17:-0 Belem time
Why: Faith communities bring concrete experiences of the impact of climate change on the most vulnerable people, including women and girls in all their diversity and people on the move, who have done the least to cause climate change and are facing the brunt of its impacts. Faith groups are on the front lines, responding to climate change through mitigation, disaster risk reduction, adaptation, and more. Faith groups and faith leaders are often the champions of ethics and morality in their communities, and bring that experience to the climate negotiations.
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MEDIA CONTACT
Simon Chambers- WhatsApp: +1-416-435-0972, Email: simon.chambers@actalliance.org
Head of Communications, ACT Alliance
