Olivia Hanks of BYM urged Friends to ‘take heart from the extraordinary work we have done together’. Photo: Quakers at COP26 by Michael Preston
Quakers rally for COP26
'If all the commitments are honoured, it is said we could be heading for 1.6–1.8C, which could have been a lot worse.’
by Rebecca Hardy
7th January 2022
2021 was dominated by the twenty-sixth UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26), with witness and discernment leading up to the gathering. Friends started preparing early with pilgrimages, relays, banner-making and art, including the Loving Earth project and the Pilgrimage for COP26, organised by Jonathan Baxter, who attends Glasgow Meeting.
