Faith in Action: Pacific Voices for Climate Justice

In the Pacific, churches bring deep community relationships, moral authority and theological traditions shaped by relationship with land, ocean and one another. Drawing on the Otin Taai Declaration and Tuākoi ‘Lei Declaration, senior Pacific and Pacific-Australian church leaders will explore the Church’s role in mobilising communities and speaking truth to power. The panel invites world leaders and negotiators to consider not only what is technically possible, but what justice, solidarity and neighbourly love require of us. Faith communities can connect global policy debates with the values, relationships and everyday lives of communities. They contribute moral language to decisions that are frequently framed as technical questions, organise people beyond established climate constituencies, and sustain solidarity with those experiencing climate impacts. The Pacific churches bring a further and essential contribution: a theology grounded in the interdependence of people, ocean, land and all creation, and a longstanding tradition of speaking prophetically from the front lines of climate change.