A life-long Unitarian Universalist, Rev. Susannah will speak about her work and campaign on the U.S. Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) or Fair Share.  She will reflect on responses to that effort during COP 28, and describe the required future work, and role UUs can play.

Susannah is a founding member of the Southeast Faith Leaders Network (SFLN) and is an active member of the U.S. Climate Action Network. She currently serves on the Executive Board of the Southeast Climate & Energy Network (SCEN) and serves as an international community outreach coordinator for the U.S. Climate Fair Share collaborative.

Rev. Susannah received her M.Div degree with an emphasis on ecological ethics from Starr King School for the Ministry at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA. Susannah lives on a gravel road in Orange County, NC with her husband who is a builder, gardener, and musician, and their beloved dog.

A talk with Movement Builder

Rev. Susannah Tuttle

UUSJ is pleased to present a Zoom issue talk by Rev. Susannah Tuttle, Director of the Eco-Justice Connection for NC Interfaith Power & Light, North Carolina Council of Churches. Rev. Susannah works on initiatives addressing environmental and climate justice issues as a moral imperative.

Join this session for an introduction to the U.S. Climate Fair Share campaign, connecting values-based principles to policy recommendations.

While the U.S. is only four percent of the world’s population, we are responsible for 30% of historic cumulative global greenhouse gas emissions. What is the U.S.’s “common but differentiated” global responsibility within the Paris Agreement? What does it mean to love our neighbors, our siblings in Mozambique, the Philippines, and Fiji, or those of us in the U.S. who are disproportionately impacted by but least responsible for the climate crisis? As people of faith and conscience, what is our clarion call? Join this session for an introduction to the U.S. Climate Fair Share campaign, connecting values-based principles to policy recommendations.

NC Interfaith Power & Light is a program of the North Carolina Council of Churches which educates, inspires, and mobilizes faith communities to advocate for justice. Founded in 1935 to address racial inequality, the North Carolina Council of Churches was quite possibly the first place in North Carolina, or even the southeast, that white and black leaders sat together as equals around the same table to address issues mutually important to all.  Across the state, their members have over 6,200 congregations with about 1.5 million congregants. They reach into every corner of North Carolina and have a presence in nearly every neighborhood and community.