Ecumenical News International (Geneva)
Trevor Grundy
6 November 2009
London — Leaders of nine major faiths have presented 60 ideas to lessen carbon emissions to the United Nations after Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon singled out the religious community as key in fighting climate change. The Norwegian Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations Development Plan in charge of development, Olov Kjoerven, on 4 November called climate change "the greatest threat that humanity has ever been up against".
He was speaking at an event organized by the Quakers in London. This followed a three-day meeting at Windsor Castle outside the British capital on how faith leaders can help change the environment. There Ban spoke, saying the world's major faiths occupy a "unique position" in future discussion on the fate of the planet.
Kjoerven noted, "Within the next few decades, larger and larger portions of the earth could be turned into uninhabitable areas. It is time for all of us and for politicians, global leaders, religious leaders, to step up to the plate and deliver a deal."
Welcoming the ideas put forward during the 2-4 November conference, the UNDP representative said that the U.N. has worked at climate change for the last 20 years. "We haven't made much progress quite frankly. Clearly there is something missing in terms of the efforts we have made so far," Kjoerven said.
That was why, he explained, the UNDP approached the Alliance of Religions and Conservation to help arrange a conference on the eve of the 7 to 18 December summit in Copenhagen.
Kjoerven declared: "The faiths have reached beyond any other constituencies. The day when the faiths through their institutions and investment portfolios decide to go from high carbon to low as a matter of principle will make an enormous difference and send a strong signal through the entire market about the way to go into the future."
ARC's secretary general, Martin Palmer, told Ecumenical News International that the conference had been better than anything he had expected.
"We knew that we were going to have 31 major commitments, such as the Church of England cutting back its energy use by 40 percent by 2015, or the Muslims 'greening' the Hajj or Jews cutting meat consumption in their community by 2015," Palmer told ENI. "Then, on the last day, there were 30 more commitments," Palmer enthused.
Tarek Wafik, Secretary General of the Forum of Dialogue for Partnership, received strong applause after telling how the entire Islamic world has accepted the action plan which will involve educating an estimated three million pilgrims who go to Mecca every year about the need to lighten their carbon footsteps.
"This," said Wafik, "could be an intensely educational process that merges with a great spiritual experience."
The need to have religious leadership in a fight against global warming was underlined by the Rev. Sally Bingham, the San Francisco-based leader of the U.S. Interfaith Power and Light campaign.
"Up until recently," Bingham said," the religious community had abdicated its responsibility to care for creation." Bingham told the audience at Friends House in London, "I believe that clergy talking abut environmental stewardship from the pulpit will have more influence than will scientists or a politician."
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Remember the 120 ! in the Upperroom, Gideon’s 300, One(1) believer can chase 1,000 demons & Two (2) can make 10,000 run .
How many will 1 million chase ?
Here’s An abbreviated Spirit Bomb prayer that I’d like for us to say to God The Creator Of All :
OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN , HOLY IS YOUR NAME, YOUR KINGDOM COME , YOUR WILL BE DONE, IN EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN .
- In Jesus Name We Pray – Amen
Pray twice per day once around sunset & once around sunrise .
Have prayer lists which include Family, Christians, Truthseekers ,& Worthy Causes , etc…
SOME OF OUR LEADERS ARE UNDER DEMONIC INFLUENCE , SOME OF OUR
WORLD IS UNDER THE SAME,. OUR UNITED , CONSISTENT, CONTINUOUS
PRAYERS WILL HELP US TO SEE THROUGH JESUS’ EYES. REMEMBER , HE’S
THE HEAD, WE HAVE NO EYES, EARS, NOSE, MOUTH, ETC..WITHOUT THE
HEAD. THAT IS WHY WE WALK BY FAITH, NOT BY SIGHT, SOUND, TASTE
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Make a Habit Of Praying Twice a Day (Sunset / Sunrise). Have A Daily Prayer, Weekly
Prayer , Monthly Prayer, even Yearly Prayer ; keeping persons, organizations and causes
in mind that you’d like to pray for at these intervals of time ( Daily-Weekly-Monthly-
Yearly).
Some prayer list suggestions –
(DAILY PRAYER LIST ) -
Christian & Natural Family -
TOP-PRIORITY Persons, Causes & Oragnizations
(WEEKLY PRAYER LIST ) -
MID-LEVEL Persons, Causes & Oragnizations
(MONTHLY PRAYER LIST ) -
- Persons, Causes & Oragnizations ( For Example – Heads Of Countries)
(YEARLY PRAYER LIST ) -
LOWER LEVEL - Persons, Causes & Oragnizations
MATTHEW 10:26 DON’T BE AFRAID OF THEM, FOR THERE IS NOTHING COVERED THAT WON’T BE REVEALED AND THERE IS NOTHING HIDDEN THAT WON’T BE KNOWN.
[God Bless You Readers To Want To Know And Seek To Know The Truth] - MAY GOD BE A HAVEN OF PEACE IN OUR TIME OF TROUBLE --
WE ARE BEING INFILTRATED BY WEEDS ACTING LIKE WHEAT ! PRAY & ACT ON YOUR FAITH AND HOPE WITH LOVE. EVEN FOR THOSE MISLEAD ACTING LIKE THEY LOVE YOU.
CLINGING FLATTERERS – [Daniel 11:34 ]] Now when The Saints shall fall, they shall be given a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries
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investigative journalist Keith Snow writes:
First note that the ICC can now be viewed as a tool of hegemonic U.S. foreign policy,
where the weapons deployed by the U.S. and its allies include the accusations of, and
indictments for, human rights violations, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
To understand this, we can ask WHY NO WHITE MAN HAS YET BEEN CHARGED
with these or other offenses at the ICC (International Criminal Court) which now holds
five black African warlords and seeks to incarcerate and bring to trial another black man,
also an Arab, Omar Bashir.
Why hasn’t George W. Bush been indicted ? Or what about Donald Rumsfeld ?
Dick Cheney? Henry Kissinger? Ehud Olmert? Tony Blair?
The sad fact is that the International Criminal Court has become terribly
politicized, as has the entire international justice apparatus.
The ICC has issued indictments, for the first time in history, against a sitting head of
state. Meanwhile, according to Snow, an Israeli weapons dealer, also a reputed Mossad
operative, is revealed to be shipping weapons into Sudan with Pentagon support.
And Belgium changed its law rather than prosecute Ariel Sharon for war crimes.
The double standard cries out to us.
One country in the West, however, increasingly stands out as a place where
justice can be found?and that is Spain. With its landmark indictment of
Pinochet and its current consideration of Israeli war crimes in Lebanon and
U.S. torture in Guantanamo, we increasingly look to the Spanish Courts with
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