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Major ARC events
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Zug, Switzerland, where ARC is holding the inaugural Faith in Finance meeting, Oct/Nov 2017 |
2017 EVENTS
Financial investors and leaders of more than 30 different faith traditions representing over 500 faith investment groups from eight religions and around three trillion dollars in assets, will meet in Zug, Switzerland, from October 30 to November 1, 2017, for the Faith in Finance meeting. More details can be found here
2015 EVENTS
Thirty years ago HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, in his role as International President of WWF initiated a gathering at Assisi of the major conservation/environment organisations and five of the world's major religions. At the time it was a radical and for many people a rather astonishing link between two quite different kind of structural entities. In the three decades since hundreds of thousands of faith-based conservation programmes and projects, and hundreds of networks and organisations have developed. An academic discipline linking religion and ecology is now well-established. However, there has never been an international attempt to consolidate lessons learned and best practices in order to inform the development of new partnerships and to sustain the ones that have developed. For the first time ever, ARC, together with The Nature Conservancy (TNC) is asking key people who have brokered these partnerships and those active in research or projects linking religion and conservation to come together to share experiences, successes, failures, hopes, plans and dreams. And then create a handbook to show how it can be done.
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Bristol UN Faiths meeting |
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and ARC are holding a historic UN Meeting on Faiths and the Sustainable Development Goals, in Bristol, UK, from September 8th to 9th. This meeting has been initiated by UNDP as a key part of the United Nations’ post 2015 process
The groundbreaking summit, at the Palace Élysée on July 21, brought together major religious and moral figures ahead of the 2015 COP, with the unique aim of encouraging a global "narrative of conscience" to emerge around our responsibility to the climate and the environment.
PAST EVENTS
On September 14, 2014, ARC brought together over seventy religious leaders, environmentalists and local policymakers from across Africa for a three-day workshop in Kampala, Uganda. The event explored the role of faith communities in promoting Sustainable Land Management and Climate-Smart Agriculture using ARC's experience in developing the Farming God's Way and Islamic Farming toolkits. More information here.
In partnership with the Shinto leaders of Jinja Honcho ARC held an important meeting at Ise, Honshu Island, Japan, the site of the Grand Shrine of Ise. The meeting, which was addressed by Her Imperial Highness, Princess Akiko as well as UN Assistant Secretary General Olav Kjørven, celebrated and advanced the work of faiths on forestry and other key environmental initiatives around the world. The Ise gathering also saw the launch of Culture, Creativity and Values, a new partnership project between ARC, the Club of Rome and the United Nations. More information about the Ise event can be found here.
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Prince Philip and Ban Ki-Moon at the Windsor Celebration, 2009 |
Trondheim, Norway, hosted a meeting of the Green Pilgrimage Network, in July 2013. The meeting looked at how pilgrimage cities can make pilgrimage a more environmentally positive experience, both for the pilgrims and for the cities, towns, villages and routes that host them. Link here for more information.
On September 17th to 20th, ARC celebrated the launch of long-term action plans on the environment by our faith partners in Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe. The event was held in conjunction with the All Africa Conference of Churches in Nairobi, Kenya. Link here for more details.
On October 31 to November 3, 2011, ARC launched the Green Pilgrimage Network at Assisi, Italy. Also launched at Assisi were two new long-term action plans on the environment - by the Coptic Orthodox Church and Mongolian Buddhists - and two guides written specially for Muslim pilgrims, The Green Guide for Hajj and Islam and Water. Link here for more information.
In November 2009, ARC and UNDP joined together to create an extraordinary event. The celebration, titled Many Heavens, One Earth at Windsor Castle in November 2009 launched 31 long-term commitments to environmental action by nine major faiths worldwide.
These faith commitments were made in the presence of HRH Prince Philip, and HE Ban Ki-moon, secretary general of the United Nations.
For more details link here. And for the Year After Windsor report link here.
Other events
For other events please link to our ARC Diary.
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ARC at a glance
ARC is a secular body that helps the major religions of the world to develop their own environmental programmes, based on their own core teachings, beliefs and practices. |
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ARC at a glance
ARC is a secular body that helps the major religions of the world to develop their own environmental programmes, based on their own core teachings, beliefs and practices. |
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October 25, 2012:
The Sacred Life of Trees - an article by Martin Palmer
Judaism, Christianity and Islam share similar stories about planting trees; Martin Palmer explores the importance of trees to each of these great faiths for the magazine Faith Initiative: Embracing Diversity. |
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