by Bee Moorhead | Nov 14, 2022 | Climate Justice, Disaster Responses and Resilience, Resources
When disaster strikes, faith communities respond. From local congregations to global institutions, organizations grounded in all the major faith traditions participate in disaster response and recovery. Increasingly, they also engage in disaster preparedness...
by Bee Moorhead | Nov 14, 2022 | Climate Justice, Creation Care, Global Climate Policy, Texas Climate & Energy
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced its latest regulatory proposal to reduce substantially oil and gas methane pollution. The new draft builds on and strengthens the agency’s initial proposal released last November. Texas Impact Executive Director...
by Bee Moorhead | Nov 13, 2022 | Climate Justice, COP27, Global Climate Policy, Latest Posts
During the first week of COP27, I participated in a briefing with US State Department negotiators; attended a speech by President Biden; and interviewed colleagues from US faith communities. More than once, I caught myself wondering, “couldn’t we have just done this...
by Bee Moorhead | Nov 13, 2022 | Civic Engagement, Climate Justice, COP27, Global Climate Policy, Human Rights, Religious Freedom
While representatives of national governments are parsing diplomatic language in meeting rooms at the climate negotiations, outside the rooms advocates from “civil society” use every strategy they can think of to advance their issues and get negotiators’ attention....
by Bee Moorhead | Nov 9, 2022 | Climate Justice, COP27, Disaster Responses and Resilience, Global Climate Policy
Today at COP was a study in contrast between international policy negotiation and the implementation work of local communities. The US is squarely in the middle of both conversations, a fact US Special Climate Envoy John Kerry highlighted in his morning talk at the...
