Meeting on line, the Provincial Standing Committee agreed to key actions including preparing a disaster readiness plan, ‘offsetting’ flights with grants to the Diocesan work, and that each Diocese should set aside a portion of land as part of the Communion forest.
Whereas:
- Southern Africa is facing the triple planetary crisis of climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss.
- The World Council of Churches has called for a Decade of Ecumenical Climate Justice Action
- We are seeing an increasing number of climate related disaster events.
This PSC requests each Diocese to implement the following:
1 Disaster Preparedness
A group with representatives from all Provincial Organisations to prepare disaster preparedness information.
2. Water scarcity
That each Diocesan Centre and parish works towards a water tank and or gray water system according to the local regulations.
3. Food security and Community gardens
We encourage parishes to engage in food security and community garden programs.
4 Communion Forest
Celebrates the wonderful work of tree or succulent planting for confirmations, installations of priests, patronal festivals, conferences etc.
And in addition each Diocese set aside a portion of land which would become officially part of the Anglican Communion forest
5. Carbon ‘offsets’
Acknowledging the environmental damage of flying each Diocese allocates R100 per local flight and R200 per international flight booked for the work of their Diocesan Environmental team.
That the Provincial office would allocate the same for the Provincial Environmental work.
For Provincial travel , the Provincial office towards the provincial work
That Diocesan and Provincial Organisations would do the same
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6. Monitoring and evaluation
That each Diocesan Coordinator reports on progress on these resolutions to DSC by June 2026 and a report is made to Provincial Synod in September of 2026
