His call comes in the run up to crucial UN talks about t climate change later this year in Copenhagen.
The Archbishop said it was vital that Christians took the lead on this issue and that a new deal at the UN summit could directly improve the lives of the world’s poor.
He said: “Whilst it will be for governments meeting in Copenhagen in December to agree a successor to the Kyoto regime for global reductions in carbon emissions - and we all want those to be both ambitious and deliverable - we have a part to play.
“Governments need to know that people want them to be ambitious. They need a mandate. So what can we do? I think there are two things we can do. We can, and we should, pray.”
He went on to say that climate change was an ‘issue of justice’ and that generally the poorest are most likely to suffer.
Environment Sunday takes place each year and, before 2004, was called Conservation Sunday.
Christian Ecology Link has also endorsed the day.
It said: “With Species extinctions occurring at 1000 to 10,000 times the natural rate, fish stocks plummeting, climate change increasing and the world population still expanding, Care of the Environment for future generations is vital.
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