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INTERFAITH MORAL ACTION ON CLIMATE
COP - 28 STATEMENT
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
COP - 28 STATEMENT
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
On behalf of Interfaith Moral Action on Climate’s diverse communities of faith:
We call on the Conference of Parties meeting in Dubai to take bold action to achieve clearly required reductions in the use of fossil fuels.
We are profoundly disturbed by the failure of global leaders to responsibly act on the ever-worsening climate crisis, even as we edge closer to dangerous, irreversible climate tipping points.
This ongoing failure to lead by prioritizing a bold and just transition from fossil fuels to clean sustainable energy is a display of disregard for the suffering of vulnerable populations that is nothing short of unconscionable. In particular, the cumulative, devastating physical and psychological toll on the world’s youth is well documented.
The United Nations process is vital for setting global emissions reduction targets and financing climate mitigation. Reliable international media outlets, however, have publicized leaked documents showing hopes of using the COP-28 venue to advance fossil fuel business deals.
We urge that COP-28 demonstrate the moral courage required for scientifically based reductions in the use of fossil fuels to restore stability to Mother Earth’s climate system upon which all life depends.
We call on the Conference of Parties meeting in Dubai to take bold action to achieve clearly required reductions in the use of fossil fuels.
We are profoundly disturbed by the failure of global leaders to responsibly act on the ever-worsening climate crisis, even as we edge closer to dangerous, irreversible climate tipping points.
This ongoing failure to lead by prioritizing a bold and just transition from fossil fuels to clean sustainable energy is a display of disregard for the suffering of vulnerable populations that is nothing short of unconscionable. In particular, the cumulative, devastating physical and psychological toll on the world’s youth is well documented.
The United Nations process is vital for setting global emissions reduction targets and financing climate mitigation. Reliable international media outlets, however, have publicized leaked documents showing hopes of using the COP-28 venue to advance fossil fuel business deals.
We urge that COP-28 demonstrate the moral courage required for scientifically based reductions in the use of fossil fuels to restore stability to Mother Earth’s climate system upon which all life depends.
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Historic Climate Trial - Youth Sue State of Montana
A group of young people is suing the state of Montana for failing to address climate change.
The state's constitution guarantees "a clean and healthful environment."
NPR Morning Edition - June 12, 2023
By Ellis Juhlin
Historic Climate Trial - Youth Sue State of Montana
A group of young people is suing the state of Montana for failing to address climate change.
The state's constitution guarantees "a clean and healthful environment."
NPR Morning Edition - June 12, 2023
By Ellis Juhlin
Printed Transcript - Here
Learn More About This Case - Here
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Government inaction on climate change
linked to
psychological distress in young people
according to a study of 10,000 youth in 10 countries
linked to
psychological distress in young people
according to a study of 10,000 youth in 10 countries
“This study paints a horrific picture of widespread climate anxiety in our children and young people.
It suggests for the first time that high levels of psychological distress in youth is linked to government inaction. Our children’s anxiety is a completely rational reaction given the inadequate responses to climate change they are seeing from governments. What more do governments need to hear to take action?"
Caroline Hickman, University of Bath, Climate Psychology Alliance , co-lead author
It suggests for the first time that high levels of psychological distress in youth is linked to government inaction. Our children’s anxiety is a completely rational reaction given the inadequate responses to climate change they are seeing from governments. What more do governments need to hear to take action?"
Caroline Hickman, University of Bath, Climate Psychology Alliance , co-lead author
: “It’s shocking to hear how so many young people from around the world feel betrayed by those who are supposed to protect them.
Now is the time to face the truth, listen to young people, and take urgent action against climate change.”
Dr Liz Marks, coauthor; University of Bath's Department of Psychology
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"Climate change is fundamentally a moral dilemma, even more than a dilemma of political will.
It is an ethical challenge between right and wrong. "
UN Conference: Buddhist Wisdom - Coping with Global Crises
Dr. Asoka Bandarage Ph.D. Yale University
Board Member, Interfaith Moral Action on Climate
Read full remarks - starting on p. 65
It is an ethical challenge between right and wrong. "
UN Conference: Buddhist Wisdom - Coping with Global Crises
Dr. Asoka Bandarage Ph.D. Yale University
Board Member, Interfaith Moral Action on Climate
Read full remarks - starting on p. 65
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'This is a campaign that’s been manufactured against Sarah Bloom Raskin by the fossil-fuel industry for the sin she’s committed of telling the truth about the dangers of carbon emissions,” Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democratic senator from Rhode Island, told me.
“And, as usual, the fossil-fuel industry is hiding behind a bunch of phony front groups to hide their hand.' "
Read entire article here
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"I fear… many in and outside the Senate are unwilling to acknowledge the economic complications of climate change
and the toll it has placed, and will continue to place, on Americans. Addressing the transition of the economy as it grapples with
the effects of climate change is critical to the future of American prosperity. I stand with the vast majority of financial regulators
and central banks in the United States and abroad recognizing these facts.
..The public understands that it will pay the price again for deliberate indifference by government
to harsh scientific and economic truths."
Sarah Bloom Raskin's Letter to President Biden
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Sarah Bloom Raskin Withdraws Her Nomination
to the Federal Reserve Board By Jane Mayer March 15, 2022 On Tuesday, in the face of what she described as “relentless attacks by special interests” who oppose her frank acknowledgment that climate change could pose a threat to economic stability, Sarah Bloom Raskin submitted a letter to President Joe Biden withdrawing as his nominee to become the vice-chair for supervision of the Federal Reserve Board. For weeks, Raskin noted, the Republicans on the Senate Banking Committee “held hostage” not only her nomination but those of Biden’s four other picks to run the Fed, including the reappointment of its chair, Jerome Powell. |
Bloom Raskin’s fate was sealed on Monday, when Joe Manchin, the Democratic senator from West Virginia, signaled that he would oppose her confirmation because she “failed to satisfactorily address my concerns about the critical importance of financing an all-of-the-above energy policy to meet our nation’s critical energy needs.”
Manchin’s family fortune is largely derived from coal, and he has taken more money from fossil-fuel interests than any other senator during the current cycle. Every Republican member of the Senate Banking Committee has also taken money from fossil-fuel interests, cumulatively accepting more than eight million dollars during their political careers from the producers of the carbon emissions that are helping to cause climate change. Read entire article here More background here |
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"America: Death is not an option anymore!"
Mass Poor People's Assembly Virtual Moral March on Washington ,June 20 & 21, 2020 - Mobilizing Partners
Mass Poor People's Assembly Virtual Moral March on Washington ,June 20 & 21, 2020 - Mobilizing Partners
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