The Conference of European Churches (CEC) has organised a series of seminars to address the issue of environmental degradation and how it affects poverty and democratic institutions.
Given FDSD’s work on climate change and its possible impacts on democracy, the Church and Society Commission of the CEC (a fellowship of 125 Anglican, Orthodox and Protestant churches in Europe) invited Director Halina Ward to speak at a Consultation on Poverty Wealth and Ecology in Europe. In her presentation, Halina highlighted the potential for a faith-based perspective to drive a progressive agenda on the relationship between democracy and climate change.…
FDSD and Chatham House (the Royal Institute of International Affairs) organised a half-day seminar to debate democracy and climate change. The meeting was chaired by FDSD Director Halina Ward and included presentations from Michael Jacobs, a former Special Advisor to Gordon Brown, and political scientist Professor Ed Weber of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
The meeting debated how various climate change scenarios could affect democracy in the UK and US, and also asked whether international policy-makers, or “climate policy elites”, should share some of the blame for the fact that liberal democracies are finding it very hard to secure …
