Climate Change Emergency
每年我參加氣候會議時,只要時間可以,都會參加一場由各個宗教團體在氣候會議會場聯合在一起的祈福許願或遊行活動,不同宗教會用不同方式來祈禱,希望能影響更多人,雖然我不是天主教徒或是基督徒,但幾次的活動中,可以感受到不同宗教界的平和與憂心,都會透過各種方法來提醒世人。
一早收到世界基督教協會,看到這個 Climate Change Emergency 氣候變遷緊急的宣言,Emergency 在我們風險管理中很重要,也有應急管理 Emergency Management ,不只是救護車上的 Emergency 而已,我們真的要非常體認重視這問題了。
幾年前我曾訪問過吳偉立神父,大家可以從 Podcast 聽這段聲音
https://open.spotify.com/show/1ryyVpjRt6faqRT1YfsWif…
彭啟明
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Statement on the Climate Change Emergency
25 November 2019
World Council of Churches
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Bossey, Switzerland
20-26 November 2019
Doc. No. 04.3 rev
Statement on the Climate Change Emergency
But the earth will be desolate because of its inhabitants, for the fruit of their doings.
Micah 7:13
Recent extreme weather events of increasing strength and frequency around the world together with further studies conducted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have jolted many into belated recognition that the climate crisis is not a distant prospect, but is upon us today.
From Hurricane Maria, Tropical Cyclone Idai, Hurricane Dorian and Typhoon Hagibis which caused loss of lives and left widespread devastation in Puerto Rico, in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi, in the Bahamas and in Japan respectively, to ongoing bushfires in Australia and California, to unprecedented flooding in Bangladesh and in Venice, and to the very recent landslide following exceptionally heavy rains in Kenya, the impacts on our communities - especially the poorest and most vulnerable among us – and on the bountiful Creation that God has entrusted to human beings as stewards – are now all too tragically real.
The latest IPCC special reports on climate change, land, oceans and cryosphere confirm that climate change has become a top driver of hunger all over the world, and project rising sea levels of up to 1 metre by 2100 due to melting glaciers, water scarcity affecting nearly 2 billion people and more intense sea-level events such as storms and flooding, if warming is not kept at the safer limit of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.
Moreover, exceptionally destructive fires and the encroachment of industrial agriculture and mining, have greatly increased concern about runaway deforestation in the largest remaining rainforest ecosystems – the earth’s lungs, the home and heritage of many Indigenous Peoples, and a critical resource in confronting the threat of climate change. Especially in the Amazon, in the Congo Basin, and in West Papua and elsewhere in Indonesia, this resource is, often deliberately, being squandered at a perilous rate.
Children, young people and ordinary citizens have made public demonstration of their outrage at the lack of any adequate response by governments to the gravity of this global crisis, and against the backsliding by some governments. Children have been obliged to mobilize and to raise their voices to demand what adults have failed or refused to deliver – fundamental changes to our economic and social systems in order to preserve God’s Creation and their future.
Indeed, a recent research report shows that governments are currently projected to produce 120% more fossil fuels by 2030 than can be burned if the world is to limit warming to an increase of 1.5°C
In particular, the United States’ formal notification of its intention to withdraw from the Paris Agreement – despite the increasingly disastrous impact of extreme weather events in the US itself – seriously undermines the best hope the international community had secured for a multilateral global response to the climate crisis. This is an abject failure and abdication of global leadership, at precisely the historical moment when such leadership is most needed. It will embolden other backsliding states. It impoverishes and imperils all of us.
The protests against widening inequality in Chile, triggering the move of the 25th Conference of Parties (COP 25) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) from Santiago to Madrid, underscore the importance of holding together the goals of sustainability and equity, and ensuring that the costs of transitioning to a carbon neutral economy are not borne by those who already have few resources. In other words, there can be no real transition without socio-economic justice.
The time for debate and disputation of established scientific facts is long over. The time for action is swiftly passing. We will all be held to account for our inaction and our disastrous stewardship of this precious and unique planet. The climate emergency is the result of our ecological sins. It is time for metanoia for all. We must now search our hearts and our most fundamental faith principles for a new ecological transformation, and for divine guidance for our next steps to build resilience in the face of this unprecedented millennial challenge.
The executive committee of the World Council of Churches, meeting in Bossey, Switzerland, on 20-26 November 2019, therefore:
Joins other faith leaders, communities and civil society organizations in declaring a climate emergency, which demands an urgent and unprecedented response by everyone everywhere – locally, nationally and internationally.
Expresses its bitter disappointment at the inadequate and even regressive actions by governments that should be leaders in the response to this emergency, especially inaction to stop fires and deforestation, the destruction of Indigenous Peoples’ ancestral lands and livelihoods, and attacks on ecological defenders; the weak commitments made under the Paris Agreement; and measures that place additional financial burdens on poor communities.
Calls on COP 25, taking place in Madrid on 2 to 13 December 2019, to:
- set the groundwork for committing to more ambitious cuts in greenhouse gas emissions as part of Nationally Determined Contributions with a view to attaining carbon neutrality by 2050 and limiting warming to not more than 1.5°C;
- ramp up commitments by wealthy nations to provide sufficient, predictable and transparent climate finance to low-income nations for adaptation and resilience-building;
- strengthen the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage to include finance to support people and communities affected by the impacts of the climate emergency; and
- promote actions to engage and learn from Indigenous Peoples in and beyond the UNFCCC process, protect biodiversity, combat deforestation, encourage agro-ecology and construct circular and redistributive economies.
Invites UN system partners, consistent with the critical research and policy advice emanating from UN sources, to examine and divest from fossil fuel investments in their own banking systems and pension funds.
Calls on member churches, ecumenical partners, other faith communities and all people of good will and moral conscience to find the means whereby we can make a meaningful contribution in our own contexts to averting the most catastrophic consequences of further inaction and negative actions by governments – and may join in confronting this global crisis through concerted advocacy for climate change mitigation and adaptation, zero fossil fuel use and a “just transition”, as well as through local action, everywhere – in our fellowship, our churches, our communities, our families, and as individuals.
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最近大家都在關注「沖繩首里城」祝融之災,分享榮芳杰老師的文章,可以思考一下祝融之後,是要重建「場所的精神」還是「場所的軀殼」?
#畫重點
#依據2019年最新版的《世界遺產公約執行作業要點》(Operational Guidelines for the Implementation of the World Heritage Convention)第86條規範︰「在真實性(authenticity)的概念下,重建考古遺跡、歷史性建築或街區,只有在特殊情況下才有討論的空間,而且也只接受在具有完整且詳細的史實並且沒有臆測的基礎下,才能接受重建。」:
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「水湳洞選煉廠遺址」是我小時候回宜蘭外婆家走濱海公路都會經過的地方,記憶中的它一直都是獨特而神祕的存在,好希望它真的能成為台灣的世界文化遺產。
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新北市瑞芳區「水湳洞選煉廠遺址」為日治時期因應挖掘銅礦而留下的建築,主體建築由當時的廠長三毛菊次郎規劃,依山勢層層向上堆疊搭建,因地面建築共十三層,被當時的礦工和居民稱之為「十三層」。至今,其基礎建構物仍存,屬珍貴歷史遺跡,百年來的採礦遺跡,也遍佈聚落及其周圍礦區,形成特殊的礦業地景,是一座天然的礦業發展博物館,紀錄著台灣礦業發展史。2003年文化部文化資產局依據「世界文化遺產暨自然遺產保護公約」,將其入選為台灣世界遺產潛力點之一。
為了重現水湳洞遺址的黃金歷史風貌,讓大眾重新認識黃金山城之美,並瞭解其歷史脈絡,台電邀請國際照明藝術大師周鍊,以及新銳藝術家何采柔共同合作「點亮十三層」公共藝術,依十三層遺址特色設計不同亮度的琥珀色柔和燈光,往後晚間6至9時固定點亮。今年中秋節,台電將與文化總會共同舉辦點燈儀式,讓光不再只是光,還能帶出過往的記憶,藉由「光」讓建築與人之間共譜出一段雋永的協奏曲。
活動日期:2019/9/13
活動時間:19:00-19:30點亮十三層儀式、19:30-20:40優人神鼓《光明海島》演出
活動地點:新北市瑞芳區水湳洞停車場
指導單位: 經濟部、文化部、交通部
主辦單位:台灣電力股份有限公司
共同主辦:新北市政府(我的新北市)、基隆市政府(魅力基隆)、中華文化總會
協辦單位:行政院環境保護署、交通部觀光局( 台灣觀光粉絲團) 、新北市瑞芳區公所
贊助單位:台灣中油股份有限公司(台灣中油)
特別感謝:台灣菸酒股份有限公司 (台灣啤酒)
直播協力:17TV
“LIGHT UP 13 LAYER REMAINS”Lighting Ceremony
Located in Ruifang District of New Taipei City,“the historic remains of ShueiNanDong Smelter”was the facility for copper mining during the Japanese colonial period. Designed by the then director - Mike Kikujirou, the structure was built into the hillside with 13 stories, so has been dubbed as “13 layer” by old miners and local people. Having stood on the hillside over the decades, the infrastructure has become a precious heritage. As the neighborhood also kept the memory of mining industry, the whole region forms an organic “Mining Industry Museum” with its own unique landscape. According to〈Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage〉, the Bureau of Cultural Heritage, Ministry of Culture has listed “the historic remains of ShueiNanDong Smelter” as a Potential World Heritage Site in Taiwan.
In order to reproduce the historical scene of the “golden town”, and to remind people of its beauty and history context, Taiwan Power Company cooperates with world-class lighting artist- Lien Chou and cutting-edge artist- Joyce Ho, and curates “Light up 13 Layer Remains.”The exhibition of amber lights in different luminance echoing the historic remains’ feature will be lit from 6 PM to 9PM every night thereafter. On the Mid-Autumn Festival, the light ceremony will be held by Taiwan Power Company and The General Association of Chinese Culture, and turns these lights into a nostalgia connection between the remains and people.
Date: 2019/9/13
Time: 19:00
Location: The parking area of ShueiNanDong, Ruifang District, New Taipei City
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