ABSTRACT
In the face of the climate crisis, the number of religious communities around the world advocating for climate action is small but growing. Yet, whither Jews on climate change? Covering decades of Jewish political activism on global warming and climate change, this heretofore undocumented history of the Jewish climate movement spans from its energy-focused birth to today’s multi-stakeholder-populated subfield of the Jewish environmental movement. How has Judaism guided their actions? What do Jewish groups see as their religious obligations in response to climate change? The growth of the nascent Jewish climate movement points to climate change as an increasingly important political concern for American Jews.
