{"id":11228,"date":"2015-08-19T07:12:24","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T12:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11228"},"modified":"2015-08-19T07:12:24","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T12:12:24","slug":"islamic-leaders-join-growing-chorus-of-religious-voices-making-moral-case-for-climate-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11228","title":{"rendered":"Islamic Leaders Join Growing Chorus Of Religious Voices Making Moral Case For Climate Action"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Islamic Leaders Join Growing Chorus Of Religious Voices Making Moral Case For Climate Action<\/a><\/h3>\n

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A symposium of Islamic leaders from 20 different countries meeting in Istanbul today released a\u00a0Climate Change Declaration<\/a>\u00a0that presents the moral case for the world\u2019s 1.6 billion Muslims to \u201ctackle habits, mindsets, and the root causes of climate change, environmental degradation and the loss of biodiversity.\u201d<\/p>\n

The declaration calls for world governments to adopt an agreement in Paris during\u00a0UN<\/span>\u00a0climate talks to be held this December that would phase out fossil fuels and limit global warming to 1.5 to 2 degrees\u00a0Celsius.<\/p>\n

It was drafted by an international team of Islamic scholars and has already been endorsed by a number of prominent Muslim scholars and teachers, as well as high-ranking officials including the Grand Muftis of Uganda and Lebanon.<\/p>\n

Not only does the declaration urge a rapid phase-out of fossil fuels, it calls for a switch to 100 percent renewable energy and specifically lays out a deadline of 2050 for wealthy and oil-producing nations to phase out all greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n

Like many religious leaders calling for climate action, the Islamic leaders who penned the declaration present it as a moral necessity that we switch to clean energy and increase support for poor, marginalized communities that are already suffering disproportionately from impacts of climate change such as drought, flooding and hunger.<\/p>\n

\u201cExcessive pollution from fossil fuels threatens to destroy the gifts bestowed on us by God, whom we know as Allah \u2013 gifts such as a functioning climate, healthy air to breathe, regular seasons, and living oceans,\u201d they write. \u201cBut our attitude to these gifts has been short-sighted, and we have abused them. What will future generations say of us, who leave them a degraded planet as our legacy? How will we face our Lord and Creator?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Islamic Leaders Join Growing Chorus Of Religious Voices Making Moral Case For Climate Action A symposium of Islamic leaders from 20 different countries meeting in Istanbul today released a\u00a0Climate Change Declaration\u00a0that presents the moral case for the world\u2019s 1.6 billion Muslims to \u201ctackle habits, mindsets, and the root causes of climate change, environmental degradation and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[113,141,1004,5317,369,386,2559,8268,822],"class_list":["post-11228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-carbon-emissions","tag-climate-change","tag-co2","tag-desmog-blog","tag-global-warming","tag-greenhouse-gases","tag-islam","tag-islamic-leaders","tag-un"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11229,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11228\/revisions\/11229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}