With 2,500 physical sites across the country, Canada's largest Protestant Christian denomination, the United Church of Canada, plans to reduce its carbon footprint by 80 per cent in seven years.

Faith-based groups in Ontario and Alberta are helping their communities deal with the ravages of climate change.

Young Canadians from diverse faiths and spiritual practices are at the forefront of climate justice action.

OakvilleReady is a program inspired by the efforts of the national interfaith environmental network Faith & the Common Good to take care of the most vulnerable in climate emergencies and extreme weather events. 

With physical infrastructure such as highways being washed away and buildings collapsing around us (think B.C. fires and floods and the East Coast floods) faith groups are ready to become first responders.

Municipalities are recognizing faith-based organizations as collaborators and partners during climate-related emergencies and COVID-19.

Toronto-based Muslim environmentalist Muaz Nasir has created a website that allows Muslim Canadians to learn from one another and share resources in tackling issues such as climate change.

The year 2020 witnessed the intersection of the global pandemic, anti-Black racism and the climate crisis. How do we overcome the crisis? The Jewish faith tradition has some hopeful teachings that can help with the answers.

We need the voices of the imams, rabbis, bishops, priests and monks in our communities to speak to their congregations of the urgent need to act on behalf of our climate.

“And so now, it is a profoundly pastoral task to acknowledge the worry, the confusion, the paralysis, the fear that congregants carry as they come to realize what we are losing. This is our work,” Mardi reasons. “To not do this work, to not talk about it, is an abdication of pastoral leadership.”