7th Assembly - Milan 2008: The True Challenge of Climate Change
Assembly Articles
Assembly's call to the churches
24. May 2011Download the Assembly's call to the churches (pdf,45kb) in English or Italian
Olive trees in Milan
26. September 2009To our ECEN friends Several weeks after the ECEN wave hit (and hopefully impacted) Italia I come to thank you for your donations to plant...
Greening our centres
26. October 2008First a kind of vision for the year 2020 – like Rüdiger Noll for the CEC and for our centres suggested: Challenged and pushed by...
Environmental activities of churches in Europe
26. October 2008Klima – Allianz See www.die-klima-allianz.de ): initiated also by the churches (environmental representatives, Bred for the world, eed) and BUND(friends of the earth), greenpeace, but...
Project proposals from the mobility group
26. October 2008European wide car fasting action during lent 2009 and 2010 via ECEN Internet web side and in cooperation with church fasting action – going on...
Shifting to a new epoch
26. October 2008Can we distinguish between the epoch of industrial affluence and the epoch of environmental friendly affluence. The German philosopher Meyer-Abich compares the passing away model...
Overcoming mobilised violence
26. October 2008The scene of violence and destruction through motorised mobility is well known, but we dismiss this problem every day, knowing that we ourselves are stuck...
Reports from Milan
16. October 2008Report by Ilona Muko, Czech Republic Download (.doc, 36kb) Report by Jörg Neiderer, Switzerland Download (.pdf, 235kb) Report by Adrian Shaw, Church of Scotland: Download...
An hour of silence
4. October 2008ECEN Assembly delegates stood in silence for an hour outside Milan Cathedral to publicise the issue of Climate change. Below are pictures from the event...
Climate Change: Challenges and opportunities
4. October 2008Professor Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, Vice-Chair of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) gave this presentation to delegates at the ECEN Assembly at Milan 2008....
Strengthening the Network
1. October 2008There are new ways to be part of ECEN between Assemblies. ECEN now has its own Facebook group called European Christian Environmental Network open to...
Churches in Europe are called to respond to the challenge of climate change
30. September 2008Conference of European Churches – Office of Communications Press Release No.08-49/e Geneva, 29 September 2008 The 7th Assembly of the European Christian Environmental Network (ECEN)...
Water
30. September 2008Climate Change is already affecting water resources in most parts of Europe and the World, and this is likely to become more serious in each...
Water in a Changing Climate
30. September 2008Introduction For some time, concern about water issues has been growing in the churches of Europe. ECEN addressed the theme in 2003 at its Fourth...
The time to act is now!
29. September 2008Download the appeal to churches in English (.pdf, 90kb) We hope more translations will be available soon.
Assembly information
16. September 2008Participants in the Assembly in Milan should have received information on practical arrangements by email. If not you can download them by clicking on the...
Education report
10. July 2007The Education Working Group (EWG) meeting at the last ECEN Assembly acknowledged that only transformative education will enable the human community to meet the challenge...