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Environmental Justice

Social Concerns
Survivors of Typhoon Haiyan pick through debris piled up by the storm in Tacloban, Philippines, in 2013 while looking for their lost possessions. Young Methodists from around the globe are working together to fight global warming and have focused on equipping vulnerable communities on the front lines of climate change with the resources they need to adapt to the changing world. File photo by Mike DuBose, UM News.

Young Methodists raising climate change awareness
Young Methodists have taken it upon themselves to educate as many people as possible about the danger of climate change and ways to combat it. The effort is called Climate Justice for All, or CJ4A.
General Agencies
Spring flowers bloom in a farm field near Ashland City, Tenn., in 2020. Agencies of The United Methodist Church are committed to achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, a goal announced on Earth Day. File photo by Mike DuBose, UM News.

Agencies set greenhouse gas emissions goal
Most United Methodist general agencies are committed to achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, a goal announced on Earth Day.
Social Concerns
The Rev. David Wilson, conference superintendent of the Oklahoma Indian Missionary Conference of the United Methodist Church, attaches banners from his conference to a fence near the Dakotas Access Pipeline, Highway 1806, near Cannon Ball, N.D. File photo by Dave Stucke, Dakotas Conference.

Court ruling temporarily halts Dakota pipeline
United Methodists have supported the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in its efforts to protect both water quality and its spiritual home.
Mission and Ministry
Stacey Abrams, shown in this 2014 file photo, urged United Methodists to “do right by the earth,” during the Festival of Homiletics, which was held online because of COVID-19. Abrams attends Columbia Drive United Methodist Church in Decatur, Ga., and is the daughter of two United Methodist elders. File photo courtesy of Stacey Abrams.

Preaching can highlight climate crisis
United Methodists spoke about environmental justice at an online gathering devoted to the art of preaching.

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