!!NEWS!! Thirty plans from nine faiths were launched at Windsor Castle Tuesday 3 November: on Wednesday November 4 it was announced that there would be six further plans to be developed over the next year (from the Mongolian Buddhists, Cambodian Buddhists, Maronite Christians, CAFOD, Scottish Eco-Congregations and the Russian Orthodox Church. There were also a dozen exciting new partnerships on different areas of environmental action including forestry, pilgrimage and education, both between faiths and also between faiths and secular organisations. More news on this later.

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To date there have been more than 30 long-term commitments by the faiths to protect the living planet. They were launched on November 3rd at Windsor Castle's ARC-UNDP Celebration. Read the summaries of the plans in our special event booklet here. The plans can be found in the second half of the book.

The Windsor Celebration is the launch of the ARC-UNDP inspired Faith Commitments for the Environment programme, in which faiths are assisted in creating long term plans that will protect the planet for generations. This programme was initially titled the Seven Year Plan Programme, to acknowledge the time that would be needed ARC has worked with different faith traditions to create a framework, through which they look at seven key areas where they might have extraordinary outreach in protecting the natural environment. These include: their assets, their educational outreach, their spiritual wisdom and insights into tackling crisis, their traditions of simple living, their advocacy, their networks and partnerships, and perhaps most important, their understanding of celebration.

More general details about the programme can be found on the ARC website www.arcworld.org where the full plans will be downloadable from mid November.