Islamic leaders issue declaration on climate change
Islamic leaders launch Climate Change Declaration
Islamic leaders from twenty countries have launched a bold Climate Change Declaration to engage the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims.
The sixty participants taking part in the Inter-national Islamic Climate Change Symposium in Istanbul on 17-18 August adopted the Declaration.
The Declaration urges governments to deliver a strong, new international climate agreement in Paris this December that signals the end of the road for polluting fossil fuels by creating architecture that will ‘limit global warming above pre-industrial levels to 2, or preferably 1.5, degrees Celsius’.
The Declaration presents the moral case, based on Islamic teachings, for Muslims and people of all faiths worldwide to take urgent climate action. It was drafted by a large, diverse team of international Islamic scholars from around the world following a lengthy consultation period prior to the Symposium.
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First the Pope’s encyclical and now this. Can we all come together to add your support to these statements before COP21? And afterwards, when we shall know whether governments have done enough, can we continue to stand together to ensure that enough is done?
By Scribe on 21st August 2015 - 10:04
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