The Rev’d Dr Mike Perry, Salisbury Diocese Bishop's Adviser on Creation Care and Climate Justice, has written this prayer for COP30, plus a one-page briefing paper on what the COP30 talks are about (and what they are not about!) and what campaigners are hoping will come out of them.
God of creation and mercy, as nations gather in Belém guide leaders to choose truth over delay and courage over comfort.
Strengthen by your Spirit the will to cut emissions, protect forests, and fund adaptation and loss and damage so that communities in poverty may flourish.
Give courage to the Indigenous guardians of the Amazon.
Inspire your church to pray, to speak, and to live faithfully for the healing of the earth you love.
We pray in the name of your Son our Lord Jesus Christ, in whom all creation is bound together.
Amen