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Khulekani Sizwe Magwaza (far left) is from South Africa and came to COP25 with the Lutheran World Federation. He is the one quoted in this newsletter: “I hope to be at COP26 in Glasgow next year, but I may not be alive. My community and village has experienced flooding again.”
Five hundred protestors were detained by UNFCCC security for expressing their frustrations outside a high-level plenary session
The two teams of the Christian Climate Observers Program overlapped over the weekend.
Evangelical Forum on Climate Change at Iglesia Bautista.
Camille Mekwinski interview Rocio Parra at the Chilean pavilion.
Scientists from the IPCC release initial findings from the upcoming report Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate
Rev. Chebon Kernell, Executive Director of the Native American Comprehensive Plan of the United Methodist Church
Archbishop Julio Murray of Panama offers the invocation at a prayer event hosted by ACT Alliance.
Cara Fleischer happens to meet US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi who introduces Cara to a congresswomen from Cara’s home state of Florida. (Spoiler: Cara is the one taking the photo; not the man shaking hands.
Cara Fleischer, Lindsay Linsky, and Camille Mekwinski are about to enter the COP grounds to register.
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