Interfaith and Climate Change

Interfaith and Climate Change

Multifaith responses to climate change

Category: Declarations

Faith Based Organisations at Stockholm+50 Launch Interfaith Statement

Faith Based Organisations at Stockholm+50 Launch Interfaith Statement

by | May 24, 2022 | | 0

Faith Based Organisations at Stockholm+50 Launch Interfaith Statement
We, the representatives of various faith based organizations, Indigenous cultures and wisdoms from around the world participating in the Stockholm+50, committed to caring for ecological justice and for protecting our one Earth, hereby make the following statement to the governments, UN entities, civil society, and all stakeholders of the “Stockholm+50” processes.

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Interfaith statement on climate change – Agadir – Morocco 2017

Interfaith statement on climate change – Agadir – Morocco 2017

by | Jan 5, 2022 | | 0

We, faith-based leaders, networks and organisations representing faith and spiritual communities– Muslim, Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Bah’ai, Brahma Kumaris, Animist, and Shamanic-from across Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas, have joined together at this non-state actors-focused Climate Chance gathering in Morocco. We are here to celebrate, recognise, and remind us all of our deep interconnection and therefore responsibility we share to care for and protect each other and all living Beings of this Mother Earth. This life is a gift the Earth has bestowed upon us; our debt is to love, honour and respect the gift and the gift-giver

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A Southern Baptist Declaration on the Environment and Climate Change

A Southern Baptist Declaration on the Environment and Climate Change

by | Jan 5, 2022 | | 0

We have recently engaged in study, reflection and prayer related to the challenges presented by environmental and climate change issues. These things have not always been treated with pressing concern as major issues. Indeed, some of us have required considerable convincing before becoming persuaded that these are real problems that deserve our attention. But now we have seen and heard enough to be persuaded that these issues are among the current era’s challenges that require a unified moral voice.

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Climate Justice for All: Our Global Declaration

Climate Justice for All: Our Global Declaration

by | Nov 28, 2021 | | 0

Over 20 senior leaders from Methodist Churches around the world have signed a joint statement calling on world leaders to act at COP26 to achieve climate justice. In the statement, the church leaders identify their Methodist and Uniting Church heritage as a quality which brings them together. They also highlight their identity as climate activists, saying that “the climate crisis is the greatest threat to life on earth and must be tackled”.

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Bali Principles of Climate Justice

Bali Principles of Climate Justice

by | Nov 21, 2021 | | 0

An international coalition of groups gathered in Johannesburg for the Earth Summit has released a set of principles aimed at “putting a human face” on climate change. The Bali Principles of Climate Justice redefine climate change from a human rights and environmental justice perspective. The principles were developed by the coalition — which includes CorpWatch, Third World Network, Oil Watch, the Indigenous Environmental Network, among others — at the final preparatory negotiations for the Earth Summit in Bali in June 2002.

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World Council of Churches: Statement on the Climate Change Emergency

World Council of Churches: Statement on the Climate Change Emergency

by | Nov 12, 2021 | | 0

The World Council of Churches Executive Committee, in a statement, said that the climate crisis is not a distant prospect, but is upon us today.

“Children, young people and ordinary citizens have made public demonstration of their outrage at the lack of any adequate response by governments to the gravity of this global crisis, and against the backsliding by some governments,” the statement reads. “The time for debate and disputation of established scientific facts is long over.”

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International Dharma Teachers’ Statement on Climate Change

International Dharma Teachers’ Statement on Climate Change

by | Nov 5, 2021 | | 0

A group of Dharma teachers from Africa, Europe, Asia, Canada, and the U.S. have issued a statement describing core Buddhist insights into the root causes of the climate crisis and ways to minimize its potentially tragic consequences. Over 500 leading Dharma teachers from around the globe have signed to support Dharma teachers and Sangha members in making solutions to climate disruption a central focus of their personal and collective activities.

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Joint statement by national Muslim organisations in the United Kingdom & Ireland

Joint statement by national Muslim organisations in the United Kingdom & Ireland

by | Nov 4, 2021 | | 0

National Muslim Organisations in the United Kingdom and Ireland have come together to create a joint statement on the climate. There is now a growing awareness of the damage that has been wrought upon our earthly home through human-induced climate change, loss of biodiversity and pollution. This is substantiated by a scientific consensus that we are threatening our own survival through our abuse of the natural world. We need to act now if we are to ensure that we are leaving behind a liveable Earth for future generations and seek guidance from the Quran and Sunnah to show us the way. A very practical statement is provided.

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Soka Gakki International Declaration

Soka Gakki International Declaration

by | Nov 2, 2021 | | 0

Soka Gakkai International represents Engaged Buddhists worldwide. Sowing Seeds of Hope: A Buddhist Call for Courageous Action for Climate Justice. On the occasion of the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in October 2021 in Glasgow, UK, the SGI (Soka Gakkai International) conducted a Press Conference in the Blue Zone and launched their statement on climate change. There was considerable focus on youth activity and youth participation in Climate Change.

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Confucian statement on the Environment

Confucian statement on the Environment

by | Oct 29, 2021 | | 0

Underlying and unifying this triad of heaven, earth and humanity is the notion of qi (pronounced chee in English, as in ‘cheetah’). This is understood as the material life force of the universe that runs through all things, integrating human beings with nature and driving the continuous process of change and creativity.

This Confucian understanding of the universe as a holistic unity emphasises the responsibility of every person to behave respectfully and with care to contribute to the general wellbeing of creation, acting as an orderly part of a collective effort. In this way the interests of humanity are served by looking after the interests of all of nature.

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