Episode 020: What is COP26?

Shana sat down recently with her good friend and colleague Lowell Bliss. Lowell is the director of Eden Vigil, an environmental missions organization now part of the Ralph Winter Launch Lab at Frontier Ventures. In addition, Lowell is the co-director of the Christian Climate Observers Program (CCOP), which provides an immersive, curated, and discipled experience of a UN COP climate summit for emerging climate leaders.

He is also the author of Environmental Missions: Planting Churches and Trees and People, Trees, and Poverty and chaired the writing team of the Lausanne Creation Care Call to Action.

Together Shana and Lowell talked about their shared experiences of previous COPs like COP25 in Madrid, Spain, in 2019 and COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, that wrapped up just a few weeks ago. Their enriched conversation dove into the complexities of the UN climate summits and why this year was a critical one. The result of COP26 was the formation of the Glasglow Climate Pact. They also discussed the vital role faith communities play in the process of these negotiations, especially during the COPs.