bath & wells: diocesan information

environment issues

The Diocese of Bath and Wells, under the chairmanship of the Reverend David Osborne, set up a working party to look at environment issues.  The aim was to draft a diocesan environment policy concerning:

1.  the adoption of more environmentally friendly practices within the diocesan organisation;

2.  how environmental audits can be carried out with regard to the different kinds of work undertaken by the diocese;

3.  how the diocese can best support the work of the Somerset Churches Together Sustainability Group and others concerned to develop more environmentally friendly practices within parishes and among church members;

4.  how the church in this diocese can best contribute to the local and national debate on the environment and help develop lifestyles and social practices which care for God's creation;

5.  how mission initiates can engage with environmental concerns (thus promoting the fifth of the Lambeth five Marks of Mission: to strive to safeguard the integrity of creation and to sustain and renew the life of the earth).

At the March 2007 Diocesan Synod the Working Party presented its report which was endorsed by Synod. 

The report is attached herewith>>

An Environmental Action Plan for the Church More>>