We live in a time of deteriorating multilateral cooperation, and with the risk that more nations will leave the Paris Agreement on keeping the climate rise at 1.5° … Bishop Philip Huggins – a member of the United Nations Interfaith Liaison Committee – reflects on matters dismissed in the forthcoming election campaign, which – as they nearly always do – focuses on the hip-pocket-nerve. There are more pressing matters. One of the Psalms prays, “Peoples unborn will praise the Lord!” But this may not happen if we don’t leave those who come after us with a world of peace and a world with a sustainable climate.
