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Birds on flooded Port Meadow, Oxford. Telephoto view from Burgess Field Nature Park. <\/i>Photo by Jonathan Bowen. <\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Working Towards the UN Climate Change Conference, COP26, in Glasgow,
\nNovember 2021<\/h2>\n

Virginia Allport<\/b><\/p>\n

During this last year, I have hugely valued the green spaces nearby: the flooded Port Meadow with the honk and whistle of geese and waders, and the wild flowers in the Trap Grounds nature reserve. They have given me, and so many people, a chance to breathe and escape from the restrictions and loneliness of lockdown. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Birds on flooded Port Meadow, Oxford. Telephoto view from Burgess Field Nature Park. <\/i>Photo by Jonathan Bowen<\/i><\/span>.  <\/span><\/i>Photos Licensed under the <\/i><\/span>Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International <\/i>license. <\/i><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But the anxiety over the climate and ecological emergency has grown continuously, despite the brief exhilaration ten years ago of BYM Canterbury, 2011, when Quakers in Britain made a commitment to act collectively to build a low carbon, sustainable  Justice. At our meeting on Wednesday 17 March we discussed carbon cutting or climate marching, and how we should prepare for COP26, the UN Climate Change Conference in November. <\/span><\/p>\n

Charles Worth began with a reading of:<\/p>\n

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The produce of the Earth is a gift from our gracious Creator to the inhabitants, and to impoverish the earth now to support outward greatness appears to be an injury to our succeeding age.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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In a nutshell, that is why we are bringing three proposals to our local business meeting on April 4: <\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. to work with area, national, and international Quakers in preparing for COP26; <\/span><\/li>\n
  2. to join local organisations like the Oxfordshire COP26 Climate Alliance, (OCCA), and <\/span><\/li>\n
  3. to discuss a series of banners for the outside of 43, addressing the climate and ecological emergency. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Our S.E.E. Justice group commends the Peace & Social Witness (QPSW) programme of action \u2018Six <\/span>ways for Quakers to secure our Climate future\u2019: <\/span>https:\/\/www.quaker.org.uk\/blog\/un-climate-talks-6-ways-for-quakers-to-secure-our-climate-future <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

    We also commend Friends of the Earth, www.oxfoe.co.uk\/cop26\/<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

    They tell us that: <\/span><\/p>\n

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    \u201cTrue leadership means doing five things. Britain must:<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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