Climate Crisis and Violent Conflict

Climate action is a pathway to peace, not merely an environmental necessity. That was the central message Athena Peralta, director of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Commission on Climate Justice and Sustainable Development, brought to Hamburg, Germany, on 16–17 April, as she presented the Ecumenical Decade of Climate Justice Action at the conference “Ecology of Peace – Eco-Theological Perspectives in Times of Global Crisis,” organized by the Academy for International Ecumenism at the University of Hamburg.

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