The Board of Deputies has overwhelmingly backed action on climate change in the final vote of the current triennial.

A resolution calling for the Board to take “appropriate actions alongside Eco-Synagogues and other partners” to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050 was passed by 85 per cent to 15 per cent.

Edwin Shuker, outgoing chairman of the community, education and interfaith division which will monitor progress, said he was “very proud” of the support for the vote.

Brian Humphreys, chair of what will now be known as the Board’s social justice committee, said ahead of the vote that the resolution was “groundbreaking in that I believe it is the first time a UK Jewish communal organisation will have publicly stated that we are now facing a climate crisis.”