Something especially Quaker

Laurie Michaelis reports on conversations with Quakers about their experience of the climate negotiations

Friends have made vital contributions to the environmental movement. Canadian Quakers Irving and Dorothy Stowe were co-founders of Greenpeace. British Friends have been closely involved in organisations from the Green Party to the Transition movement.

While individual Quakers, however, have been clear about their green leadings, corporately we have sometimes faltered. Yet I believe careful discernment is bearing fruit in a witness that really is born of love. This is especially evident in the work of the Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) with the UN climate negotiations.

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