What is a faith commitment to sustainability?
Alison Prout is finding out
This week I was one of two Quaker representatives participating in a gathering in Windsor of global religious leaders and senior United Nations staff, including Ban Ki-Moon, the secretary-general. Faith groups will be publicly announcing the details of their plans to take immediate and progressive steps to counter the threat of climate change. Take some time to read about how South American Jesuits are uniting in action to protect the Amazon rainforest or the decision to power all Daoist temples in China with solar panels. I guarantee that you will be impressed and inspired. The United Nations is calling the commitments that will be announced at this meeting ‘the biggest civil society movement on climate change in history’.
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