The conference aims to provide a variety of platforms for discussion in order to explore its themes. Three keynote speakers will each give a brief, focused address at the beginning of the day and later respond to written questions from participants in a panel discussion at the end of the day. Between the two sessions, workshops will be held on a range of practical and theoretical topics.
The schedule for the day is summarised below:
| 0900 | Registration opens |
|---|---|
| 1000 | Welcome session |
| 1015 | Keynote speeches |
| 1135 | First round of workshops |
| 1250 | Lunch |
| 1400 | Second round of workshops |
| 1520 | Panel discussion |
| 1630 | Closing session |
There will be opportunities throughout the day to gather questions and feedback from the keynote speeches and workshops for inclusion in the afternoon panel discussion.
Keynote speeches
- What does it mean to have Christian faith in a world moving into crisis?
- Climate change and political action: what is our Christian responsibility?
- Climate change - how can the Church challenge society?
Workshop topics
- Renewable energy sources
- Climate change and biblical themes of apocalypse
- Themes of climate change within Christian worship
- The Bible and our response to climate change
- Climate change, poverty and development issues
- The science of climate change: an update for beginners
- Climate change: what's being done about it in the churches in the UK?
- Your carbon footprint and what you can do about it
- Climate change policy and the trade unions
- Climate change policy: national, local and in the EU
- Minding Sustainability: creating conditions for psychological engagement with ecological crisis