Penzance Quaker Meeting is organising a Meeting for Worship in Truro on September 22nd with a focus on the loss and damage caused by climate breakdown. We welcome everyone who feels moved to join us.
“ Quakers in Cornwall will be holding a Meeting for Worship outside Truro Cathedral as part of an international day of action calling for big polluters to pay compensation for the impacts of the climate crisis. A number of interfaith vigils highlighting these impacts will take place around the UK as part of Loss and Damage Action Day on Thursday 22 September.
The term ‘loss and damage’ refers to climate impacts including floods and sea-level rise as well as extreme weather events such as hurricanes, which are becoming more frequent and more severe as a result of fossil fuels heating the planet. The Truro Meeting for Worship is particularly held in solidarity with Pakistan, where catastrophic flooding has killed more than a thousand people and affected 33 million.
Climate-related loss and damage is destroying homes, lands and livelihoods around the world – but there is no international agreement on who should pay for it. At the COP26 climate talks last year, countries representing 85% of the world’s population proposed setting up a loss and damage finance facility, but this was rejected. Countries in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, along with campaigners from around the world, are calling for this option to be considered again at COP27, which will be held in Egypt in November.”
