Forum 2002 Global Climate Change

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=110 BGCOLOR="#999933" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="040006e0ddwnfv.png"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B>Sage - Oxford's Christian Environmental Group</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="Arial" ><B>     |    </B></FONT><B> </B><A HREF="index.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Sage Oxfords Christian Environmental Gr"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>Forum 2002 Global Climate Change</B></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=190 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" background="041bec00esnpes.png"> <div> <B>IMPORTANT LINKS</B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.climateforum2002.org/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.climateforum2002.org/"><U><B>Climate Forum 2002</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.climateforum2002.org/statement.cfm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.climateforum2002.org/statemen"><U><B>Forum Statement</B></U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=370 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B>Forum 2002 Global Climate Change</B></div> <div> <IMG SRC="0eee12c0.jpg" border=0 width="225" height="300" ALT="Margot at the joint A Rocha/Sage stand" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="5" VSPACE="5">"<I>More than 70 leading climate scientists, policy-makers and Christian leaders from across 6 continents gathered for "Climate Forum 2002" in Oxford, England to address the growing crisis of human-induced climate change. The Forum recognizes the reality and the urgency of the problem, which particularly affects the world's poorest peoples and the very fabric of the biosphere. The Forum also recognizes that the Christian community has a special obligation to provide moral leadership and an example of caring service to people and to all God's creation. To that end, the Forum offers the following statement to church, business and governmental leaders." (Quote from the Forum web site). </I><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.climateforum2002.org/statement.cfm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.climateforum2002.org/statemen"><U>Forum Statement</U></A></FONT></div> <bR> <div> Three <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#00CC00" FACE="Arial" ><B>Sage</B></FONT> members were involved in this important meeting. Mike Morecroft is on <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.jri.org.uk" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.jri.org.uk"><U>The John Ray Initiative</U></A></FONT> board, organized the excursions, and led a field trip to Wytham Wood near Oxford. Martin and Margot Hodson were asked to represent <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.arocha.org" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.arocha.org"><U>A Rocha</U></A>.</FONT> The links on the left will tell you about the Forum and the Forum Statement. The more publicity that this statement gets the better, so if you read this, think carefully about who you should pass the information on to. It is not an exaggeration to say that the future of this planet hangs on what we do about climate change <B>NOW.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0f0f4770.jpg" border=0 width="500" height="375" ALT="Mike Morecroft explaining Wytham Wood" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="5" VSPACE="5"></B></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >Mike Morecroft explaining the ecology of Wytham Wood, near Oxford. Mike works on the ecological effects of climate change, and wrote an article on the topic for a previous Sage Words. See</FONT> <A HREF="swords2002a_british_wildlife_at_risk_from_climate.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Sage Words February 2002"><U>British wildlife at risk from climate</U></A> change.</div> </td> </tr></table></body>