The mainline churches and climate change in Uganda

This chapter describes the responses of mainline churches in Uganda to climate change. The discussion is premised on the understanding that global warming that leads to change in climate is a reality. The phenomenon is a result of human activities. Human activities such as deforestation, combustion of fossil fuels, and production of agricultural commodities and livestock, among others, cause a lot of emission of carbon dioxide and a significant rise of other greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere. Greenhouse gases absorb energy radiated from the earth to space and warm the atmosphere. In Uganda, evidence from the National Environmental Management Authority (NEMA) shows that the rate of climate change is alarming. As in other developing countries, the significant contributors to climate change in Uganda are human factors like rapid deforestation, land degradation, increased industrialization, uncontrolled population, and so forth. The human factors that have caused climate stress have adverse effects to humanity. It is in discussing such that this chapter seeks to assess the response of the mainline churches in addressing climate change.