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Africa Speaks up on Climate change
“Africa Speaks up on Climate change” is an appeal to political actors worldwide to care about the threat climate change poses to Africa. Its aim is to create awareness that these political actors must act immediately.
13 Oct 2009
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Interfaith Leaders Back Climate Bill
WASHINGTON, Oct 8 (IPS) - An interfaith group of religious leaders Thursday announced the launch of DaySix.org, an initiative aimed at influencing the passage of Senate legislation on climate change.
The group hopes to motivate grassroots support among religious members of the U.S. public.
13 Oct 2009
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Researchers used ocean sediments to plot CO2 levels back 20 million years.
Levels similar to those now commonly regarded as adequate to tackle climate change were associated with sea levels 25-40m (80-130 ft) higher than today.
Scientists write in the journal Science that this extends knowledge of the link between CO2 and climate back in time.
The last 800,000 years have been mapped relatively well from ice cores drilled in Antarctica, where historical temperatures and atmospheric content have left a series of chemical clues in the layers of ice.
But looking back further has been more problematic; and the new record contains much more precise estimates of historical records than have been available before for the 20 million year timeframe.
13 Oct 2009
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Message to Faith Leaders in Southern Africa
I am sure you are all becoming aware of the impending crisis of climate change and the need to deal with it realistically at Copenhagen when the UN Climate Change Conference meets from 7th to 18th December.
There is also an increasing acknowledgement that it may only be through the intervention of faith communities that we will be able to bring about the changes needed if we are to leave a sustainable world to our children. Climate change is a moral issue and therefore involves us.
09 Oct 2009
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SOME HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE INTERFAITH CONSULTATION ON CLIMATE CHANGE
Context
For the past two days we have had intense and rich deliberations and discussions which, it would be both presumptuous and impossible to attempt to sum up. Instead, what I attempt to do is recall phrases that have resonated during the past 48 hours and messages that have left an indelible impression on me.
This has been an impressive gathering of more than 50 persons, at least half of whom represent youth and the promise of the future. It has been a unique gathering of communities of faith comprising both religious leaders and lay people and while we addressed aspects of global climate change, we did so against a very specific Asia-Pacific context. Thus, while we identified the many deleterious impacts of global climate change, these were best captured in snapshots of the vanishing snow over the majestic range of Himalayan mountains and the submerging islands of the Maldives and the Pacific.
06 Oct 2009
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