Abstract
Through face-to-face semi-structured interviews with 30 church leaders (i.e., 10 Catholics, 10 Anglicans, and 10 Pentecostals) on their perceptions about the cause of climate change and the role/responsibility of the church toward the phenomenon in Nigeria, it was found that there is an overwhelming consensus that supports the reality of anthropogenic climate change and active church-based climate action in the country. Awareness creation, charity for disaster victims, and prayer were identified by the participants as the roles churches can play in addressing climate change. However, some participants had dissenting views with some of them insisting that climate change is not man-made and that the church should have no business addressing the phenomenon. With a descriptive analytical method, this chapter examines these dissenting views and their implications for church-led environmental activism in Nigeria. The implications of these views for policy and research on global religious environmentalism are also discussed.