In a time of profound challenges to multilateral efforts to address planetary crises, this press conference introduces voices from different faith traditions to speak on their shared ethical and moral compass to guide values-based multilateral efforts for climate action and climate justice.
We are living in a time where vested interests and rising nationalism are negatively affecting global efforts to address catastrophic climate change through greenhouse gas emissions reduction, healthy transformations of root causes, and protection of the most vulnerable and of nature. Attacks on multi-lateral institutions are hampering a wide range of responses to issues of global concern, with perhaps none being more urgent or clearly needing a whole-of-humanity response than the climate crisis.
The accelerating climate impacts and related planetary crises on people and nature highlight the ever-greater need for a common platform where national interests do not fail our common humanity and survival. Faith communities go beyond national borders; in their DNA lie the care for those most affected regardless of borders or distance, and calls for urgent, rights-based, equitable, and transformative climate action.
When: June 16, 2026 at 10h30
Where: Nairobi 4 and online
Moderator: Aneta Loj, Brahma Kumaris
Panel:
- Sostina M. Takure – ACT Alliance
- Lucy Plummer – Soka Gakkai International
- Onentho Godfrey – Caritas Uganda
- Lindsey Fielder Cook – Quaker United Nations Office
Media contact:
Simon Chambers
Head of communications, ACT Alliance
simon.chambers@actalliance.org
