WCC central committee moderator Bishop Prof. Dr Heinrich Bedford-Strohm at the WCC executive committee meeting in Hangzhou, China, 20 November 2025. reflected on the Ecumenical Decade of Climate Justice Action. “We must be very clear that the decade is only as forceful as churches and their parishes all over the world make it”. He urged churches to engage in public discourse wherever possible. “In democratic states, politicians who strive to be elected or re-elected, need our support for their engagement in climate justice. Especially where the necessary ecological transformation might entail hardship for a certain while, the churches have an important task of making clear that this transformation is a moral duty.” Too often, he said, the word of churches are too self-referential. “We must bring our well-considered statements in dialogue with those who are sometimes caught in day-to-day politics and all the dilemma situations connected with it”.