Resources:

Life’s resources & the global economy

• Global finances can and must change - here’s how (2009.02.12) – an article by Juan Michel, WCC media relations officer, on the issue of alternatives to the international financial system, from interviews with social activists attending the 2009 World Social Forum in Belém, Brazil
• “Move towards Life-Giving Oikos” (2008.12.16) – closing message by Dr. Park Seong-Won at the colloquium and launching of the WCC/WARC/CWM-organised Oikotree movement, held in the Philippines on 11-16 December 2008
• People’s Statement on the Global Crisis (2008.12.15) – initiated by RESIST! and APRN, the statement analyses the roots and character of the current crisis and proposes critical measures to relieve and alleviate the people’s situation
• Faith and Feasibility – Responsibly searching for a “new heaven and a new earth” (2008.12.12) – WCC statement addressed to the plenary of the high-level segment of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Poznan’, Poland
• Tourism in the Philippines: A View from the Underside (a report on the ECOT-PfL Consultation) (2008.12) – prepared by Vivian de Lima; presents an overview of the context and outcomes of the Consultation, held on 21-22 October 2008 in Quezon City, Philippines
• The Uppsala Interfaith Climate Manifesto 2008 (2008.11.29) – signed by 26 leaders from different faith traditions concluding a two-day Interfaith Summit on Climate Change held in Uppsala on 29 Nov 2008, eve of the annual United Nations Climate Change Conference in Poznan, Poland
• The Time for Justice is Now: Statement on the Doha Outcome Document (2008.11.29) – statement by the WCC delegation attending the UN International Conference on Financing for Development that took place in Doha, Qatar, 29 Nov - 2 Dec 2008
• Counter-Memorandum to reject the memorandum on entrepreneurial action of the EKD on biblical, theological and economic grounds (2008.10.31) – response of critical German Christians on the July 2008 memorandum of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) on “Entrepreneurial Conduct in an Evangelical Perspective”
• Tourism in the Philippines: A View from the Underside (2008.10.24) – unity statement issued by the participants of the Philippine consultation on “Tourism in the Philippines: A View from the Underside”, 21-23 October
• A Moral Economy of Tourism (2008.10.22) – theological reflection by Dr. Everett Mendoza at the Philippine consultation on “Tourism in the Philippines: A View from the Underside”, 21-23 October
• State and Trends of Global Tourism: Setting the Context (2008.10.21) – opening remarks by ECOT Director Caesar D’Mello at the Philippine consultation on “Tourism in the Philippines: A View from the Underside”, 21-23 October
• WCC general secretary’s statement on the global food crisis (2008.10.16) – issued on the occasion of World Food Day, 16 October
• World Tourism Day 2008: A South Perspective (2008.09.27) – statement from the Ecumenical Coalition on Tourism (ECOT) and endorsing agencies for World Tourism Day, 27 September
• African Church Leaders’ Statement on climate change and water (2008.06.05) – concluding statement of the AACC-sponsored consultation on climate change held in Nairobi, Kenya, 3-5 June
• Food and Faith: A call to churches on the global food crisis (2008.06.05) – policy statement and call to action issued by the WCC general secretary on the global food crisis on the occasion of the world leaders summit on food security in Rome, 3-5 June

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