Religiösa ledare från hela världen vill se omställning till 100 procent förnybar energi

Företrädare för ett stort antal olika trostraditioner menar att klimatarbetet på jorden måste intensifieras. 

I dag publicerades manifestet Interfaith climate change statement to world leaders (pdf). Dokumentet har skrivits under av 270 religiösa ledare, bland annat Dalai Lama och Desmond Tutu, men även den svenska ärkebiskopen Antje Jackelén.

I manifestet går att läsa:

The planet has already passed safe levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Unless these levels are rapidly reduced, we risk creating irreversible impacts putting hundreds of millions of lives, of all species, at severe risk. The challenges ahead require honesty and courage and we all must take action to reduce emissions.

Budskapet till världens politiska företrädare är koncentrerade till sex punkter:

We therefore:

• Urge governments to rapidly sign, ratify and implement the Paris Agreement, and to increase pledges to reduce emissions in line with keeping the global temperature rise to 1.5C above preindustrial levels;

• Insist on rapid emissions reduction and peaking by 2020, in order to keep the 1.5C limit within reach;

• Strongly advocate the greater flows of finance, especially for adaptation and loss and damage;

• Urge the swift phase out of all fossil fuel subsidies and transition from fossil fuels to 100% renewable energy by 2050;

• Encourage faith communities to reduce emissions in their homes, workplaces and centres of worship and to support and stand in solidarity with communities already impacted by climate change;

• Call for fossil fuel divestment and reinvestment in renewables and low carbon solutions, including within our own communities, and/or by engaging companies on climate change.