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“We really hope to get as many people as possible to commit to at least one action, the whole idea of MCA really is to pull the resources of our organisations to reach out to Muslim communities and make their voices heard, at a higher level, in terms of climate change.” Shannon Green, Operations Coordinator at Global One.
An East London interfaith network is encouraging faith-based communities to become ‘stewards of the earth’ and collectively lobby the Government to meet the goals of the Paris climate agreement.
At an interfaith conference, held at the East London Mosque in Whitechapel last week, Rabbi Natan Levy, 42, said:
“We may not share the same vision of heaven all the time, but we have to share the same Earth.”
Imam Muhammed Al Hassan, 35, another speaker at the event, vowed to facilitate the discussion on climate change and called on other faith leaders to do the same:
“If we go to the government and want to lobby or influence, because if the Muslim community, the Jewish Community, the Christian community, the Hindu Community and people of no faith come together for one cause, it will have a bigger impact.”
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