12 November, 2024
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Baku, Azerbaijan: Voices from many faiths around the world are not just present at this COP but have been working together for months in building a collaborative Call to Action for COP29. The Call has been signed by over 60 faith-based organisations from many faith traditions and interfaith groups. Faith members, involved in climate advocacy, bring a unique perspective grounded in the moral call to climate change. This perspective influences their technical experience and their work with communities on the frontlines of the climate emergency.
85% of the world’s population ascribe to a faith tradition. Members of these faith communities work at the local, regional, national, and international levels to pursue climate justice. The Interfaith Liaison Committee brings together faith constituencies working to achieve climate justice to raise their voices together and share their stories from their traditions and experiences around the world.
What: Call ambitious climate action and NDCs, climate finance, loss and damage, Indigenous people’s rights, gender justice, and peace, as well as an overview of faith engagement in the Interfaith Liaison Committee
Who:
Bishop Julio Murray, Anglican Communion Environmental Network and WCC, Panama
Jamie Williams, Islamic Relief, United Kingdom
Maua Maro, ACT Alliance and LWF, Kenya
Wara Iris Condori, Memoria Indigena, Bolivia
Athena Peralta, WCC, Philippines and Switzerland
Valeriane Bernard, Brahma Kumaris – Moderator
Where: Press Conference Room Natavan, Area D, Blue Zone and online
When: Wednesday, November 13, 2024 16:00-16:30 Baku time
Why: Faith communities bring concrete experiences of the impact of climate change on the most vulnerable people, including women and girls in all their diversity and people on the move, who have done the least to cause climate change and are facing the brunt of its impacts. Faith groups are on the front lines, responding to climate change through mitigation, disaster risk reduction, adaptation, and more.
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MEDIA CONTACT
Simon Chambers- WhatsApp: +1-416-435-0972, Email: simon.chambers@actalliance.org
Director of Communications, ACT Alliance
