The conference, “Going Further, Faster Together: towards a Global Multi-faith Women led Climate Action Network,” is designed to support collaboration among women’s networks from Indigenous, tribal, and faith traditions, and to forge joint action across faith and sectoral lines for rapid impact on climate and biodiversity goals.
Fifty women of diverse faiths, with male allies, youth, and Indigenous representatives, have joined selected climate, gender, communications, and other specialists to explore what radical collaboration to scale up climate action and advocacy across faith and sectoral lines could look like in practice.
The are discussing specific actionable next steps to scale up activism and advocacy.
Seidel contributed to a discussion entitled “What radical collaboration across faith and sectorial lines could look like in practice,” leading the breakout group on legal action.
“The discussion with participants on the importance of legal action for intergenerational climate justice went very well,” said Seidel. “Partners of other faiths expressed interest in considering a class action, and a lot of religious leaders are interested in joining the upcoming online workshops about the WCC handbook currently under development.”
Seidel joined others in an audience with Pope Francis, to whom she gave a copy of “Churches’ Commitments to Children.”