How the World's Religions are Responding to Climate Change: Social Scientific Investigations (Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research) by Robin Globus Veldman

Author:Robin Globus Veldman [Veldman, Robin Globus]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9781136181313
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2013-09-11T04:00:00+00:00

UN climate change talks 2011: Are interfaith communities stepping up to the plate?

A promising beginning: 2011

Two months before world leaders gathered to discuss the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in South Africa, a series of events in Ottawa (the capital of Canada) seemed to signal a new chapter in the faith communities’ engagement regarding climate change. On October 25, 2011, leaders from within five faith communities (Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Baha’i, and Buddhist) in Canada released a joint document entitled Canadian Interfaith Call for Leadership and Action on Climate Change. Arising from the Canadian Council of Churches and the nascent Interfaith Partnership, this position document was the first of its kind in Canada on faith and climate change to be developed and endorsed by a broad cross-section of faith leaders and communities (see Table 11.2).

Table 11.2 Faith communities in Canada that signed the Canadian Interfaith Call for Leadership and Action on Climate Change

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