Campaigners plan prayer service before Climate March

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This coming Saturday, an ecumenical service of worship in Mayfair will precede the annual national Climate March in Central London.

Christian Ecology Link and Operation Noah will host the Climate Service at 11am on Saturday 1 December 2012 at Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley Street, London W1K 2PA to pray for the success of the current United Nations climate conference in Qatar. The service will be led by spiritual director Rev Chris Polhill who is author of the book ‘A Heart for Creation Worship Resources and Reflections on the Environment’. Catholic journalist Ellen Teague will speak. All are welcome.

Ruth Jarman, a member of the board of Christian Ecology Link, said: "I think attending a service of worship in this beautiful church a very fitting way to support the march and pray for sense and hope amid humanity’s paralysis in the face of climate change".

After the service at noon, the congregation will leave the church to join the Climate March organised by Campaign against Climate Change. The rally will start at Grosvenor Square, where a mock pipeline will be built from the Canadian High Commission to the US embassy. After this, the march will move to Westminster to build a mock fracking rig outside parliament.

This week, while Britain saw month-levels of rain in single days, the government published its disappointing Energy Bill. The Bill specifies no target for making the power sector carbon-free – something that the government’s own independent advisory body, the Committee on Climate Change, says is necessary. Internationally, this year’s round of UN climate talks, COP 18, are taking place in Qatar's capital, Doha from 26 November to 7 December, 2012.

For further details contact Ruth Jarman, Climate Change campaigner for Christian
Ecology Link by email : ruthj999@gmail.com or by telephone : 01252 849904 or 07970 907784

Useful links:

www.greenchristian.org.uk
www.operationnoah.org
www.grosvenorchapel.org.uk
www.campaigncc.org