Evangelical Climate Initiative


The Evangelical Climate Initiative is a campaign by US-American church leaders and organizations to promote market based mechanisms to mitigate global warming.

Statements

ECI's statements, calling for protecting the earth from global warming, pollution, extinctions.

History

The Evangelical Climate Initiative was launched in February 2006 by the National Association of Evangelicals. The NAE worked with the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School to bring scientists and evangelical Christian leaders together to mitigate climate change.
It was initially signed by 86 evangelical leaders and the presidents of 39 evangelical colleges. The number of signatories had risen to over 100 by December 2007, and as of July 2011 over 220 evangelical leaders had signed the call to action. David P. Gushee, a professor of Christian ethics at Mercer University, helped draft the document.