{"id":74187,"date":"2018-10-09T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=74187"},"modified":"2018-10-09T18:43:57","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T22:43:57","slug":"c-of-e-bishop-of-salisbury-calls-for-uk-net-zero-commitment-as-climate-change-report-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=74187","title":{"rendered":"(C of E) Bishop of Salisbury calls for UK &#8216;net zero&#8217; commitment as climate change report published"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England\u2019s lead bishop on the environment has said that a report published today by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reveals a \u2018critical risk-level\u2019 for global communities.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking from the European Churches Environmental Network in Katowice, Bishop Nicholas Holtam, Bishop of Salisbury, urged the UK Government to commit to a target of net zero emissions by 2050.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The evidence published by the IPCC today shows that the risk level of climate change is now critical. Ours is the first generation to know and understand this and probably the last to be able to do something meaningful towards climate justice,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year has been the hottest on record. Extreme weather events happen with increasing frequency, and the poorest are most vulnerable to the impact of climate change which affects us all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofengland.org\/more\/media-centre\/news\/bishop-calls-uk-net-zero-commitment-climate-change-report-published\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England\u2019s lead bishop on the environment has said that a report published today by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reveals a \u2018critical risk-level\u2019 for global communities. Speaking from the European Churches Environmental Network in Katowice,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=74187\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[389,115,635,140,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-climate-change-weather","category-coe-bishops","category-energy-natural-resources","category-ethics-moral-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74189,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74187\/revisions\/74189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}