COP22 INTERFAITH CLIMATE CHANGE STATEMENT TO WORLD LEADERS

November 10, 2016 Statement by Religious, Spiritual and Faith-based leaders

for the first meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement (CMA1) during the twenty-second session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 22). www.interfaithstatement2016.org​ ​ #​COP22FaithStatement Contact us: [email protected]

Signees Country Religion

Rt. Rev. Nicholas Drayson, Diocesan , Anglican Church of Northern Argentina, Anglican Province of Argentina Christian South America

Prof. Carlos Reyes, Ministro Religioso, profesor de Argentina Christian Teología, estudiante de derecho (UBA)

Peter Abrehart, President, Australia and New Zealand Australia/ NZ Unitarian Universalist Unitarian Universalist Association

Prof. Nihal S Agar AM, President, Hindu Council of Australia Hindu Australia

Imam Shady Alsulaiman, President, Australian Australia Muslim Council

Michael Anderson, Aboriginal elder and land rights Australia Aboriginal Elder activist

Rev. Dr. Lyn Arnold, Chair of the Public Affairs Commission of the Anglican Church of Australia, Australia Christian Anglican Synod

Rev. Dr. Vicky Balabanski, Director of the Forum on Australia/ Pacific Interfaith Religion and Ecology (FORE)

Dr. Daud Abdul-Fattah Batchelor, Chair, Brisbane Australia Muslim Muslim Fellowship

a Australia Buddhist Dhammatthala Ven. Santacārī Bhikkhunī, Leader, Dakkhiṇ

Abbot Brahm, Spiritual Director, Buddhist Society of Western Australia and Abbot of Bodhinyana Australia Buddhist Buddhist Monastery

Bishop George Browning, Inaugural Convener the Australia Christian Anglican Communion Environment Network

Sr. Elizabeth Delaney SGS, General Secretary National Australia Christian Council of Churches in Australia

McRose Elu, Torres Strait Islander Elder Australia Indigenous Elder

Laurence Freeman OSB, Director of the World Australia Christian Community for Christian Meditation

David Freesmith, Social Justice Coordinator, Unitarian Australia Unitarian Universalist Church of South Australia

Asia-Pacific incl Rt. Rev. Godfrey Fryer tssf, Minister Provincial, Australia, Hong Kong, Province of Asia-Pacific, Third Oder, Society of St Christian Malyasia, Papua New Francis Guinea, Bishop John Henderson, Bishop of the Church, Australia Christian Lutheran Church of Australia

Imam Yahya Ibrahim, University of Western Australia Australia Muslim

Rev. Keith Jobberns, National Ministries Director, Australia Christian Baptist Union of Australia

Jo Jordan, Presiding Clerk, Australian branch of the Australia Quaker Quaker Society

Rabbi Jonathan Keren-Black, Environmental Advisor to the Council of Progressive Rabbis of Australia, New Australia/NZ/Asia Jewish Zealand and Asia

Dr. Manzoor Khan, Immediate Past President, Australia Muslim Ahmadiyya Muslim Association

Anne Lanyon, Coordinator, Faith Environment Australia Multifaith Network

Pr. Jorge Munoz-Larrondo, President, Australian Union Australia Christian Conference

Rev. Prof.Thorwald Lorenzen, Christians for an Ethical Australia Christian Society

Anne Markey, Lead for Goolwa Group and the Australia Buddhist Ashtree in Adelaide

Stuart McMillan, President, Uniting Church in Australia Australia Christian Assembly

Cecilia Mitra LLB , LLM UWA, President, Australia Buddhist Federation of Australian Inc

Dr. Ibrahim Abu Mohamed, Sunni Islamic Scholar and Australia Muslim Grand of Australia

Prof. Neil Ormerod, Professor of Theology, Australian Australia Christian Catholic University

Thea Ormerod, President, Australian Religious Australia Interfaith Response to Climate Change (ARRCC)

Damian Outtrim, President, Multifaith Association of Australia Interfaith South Australia

Rt. Rev. Prof. Stephen Pickard, Executive Director, Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture; Professor of Theology, Charles Sturt University; Australia Christian Assistant Bishop, Anglican Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn

Jacqueline Remond, National Director, Catholic Australia Christian Earthcare

Rev. Fr. Thomas Varghese, the Sydney St.Thomas Australia Christian Indian Orthodox Church

Dr. Kazi Nurul , United Relgions Initiative (URI), Bangladesh Muslim Board Member of Global Council of Trustees

Most Rev.Paul Shishir Sarker, Bishop of Dhaka and the Bangladesh Christian Moderator of the Church of Bangladesh

Sheikh Isa Amer Quevedo, Centro Islámico Boliviano Bolivia Muslim

Dr. Mustafa Ceric, former President of the Council of Bosnia Muslim Ulema

Rafael Soares de Oliveira, Diretor Executivo, Koinonia, Brazil Christian Presença Ecumênica e Serviço, ACT Aliança

Sr. Prof. Ivone Gebara, Sister of Our Lady Brazil Christian

Rev. Agnaldo Pereira Gomes, Vice-Presidente, Igreja Brazil Christian Presbiteriana Independente do Brasil

Fr. Heikki Huttunen, General Secretary, Conference of Belgium/ Finland Christian/Orthodox European Churches

Dr. Aadmou Njoya, Minister Plenipotentiary and President of the Cameroon Democratic Union (CDU), Cameroon Muslim Member of the Elijah Board of World Religious Leaders

Rt. Rev. Jane Alexander, Bishop of Edmonton Canada Christian

Imam Navid Aziz, Islamic Information Society of Canada Muslim Calgary

Dr; Marilyn Legge, Associate Professor of Christian Canada Christian Ethics, University of Toronto

Bishop Mark MacDonald, Bishop for Indigenous Canada Indigenous Anglican Peoples, Anglican Church of Canada

Very Rev. Dr. Bill Phipps, United Church of Canada Canada Christian

Bishop Izani Bruch, Bishop of the Lutheran Evangelical Church of Chile (Iglesia Evangélica Luterana de Chile Chile Christian IELCH)

Juan Carlos Castillo, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Christian Chile, Instituto de Sociología

Prof. Jorge Costadoat, Profesor de Teología de la Chile Christian Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Rabbi Diego Edelberg, Comunidad Ruaj Amí Chile/ Hong Kong Jewish Prof. Gerardo González, Profesor de Educación Chile Christian Religiosa, Instituto La Salle

Rev. Juana Rosa Albornoz Guevara, Presidenta de la Iglesia Misión Apostólica de Chile, 1ra. Directora de la Chile Christian Unión Nacional Evangélica de Chile y de la Fraternidad Ecuménica Chile

Fernando Guzmán, Las Procuras de Misiones Chile Christian

Sr. Karoline Mayer Hofbeck, Chairwoman, La Chile Christian Fundación de Beneficencia Cristo Vive

Monseñor Padre Luis Infanti, Obispo de la région Aysén Chile Christian

Mary Judith Ress, Maryknoll Lay Missionery, Founding Chile Christian Member of the Conspirando Collective

Hermana Marcela Sáenz aci, Conferencia de Chile Christian Religiosas/os de Chile

Obispo Siegfried Sander de la Iglesia Luterana de Chile Chile Christian (ILCH)

Rev. Dr Juan Esteban Sepúlveda, Servicio Evangélico Chile Christian para el Desarrollo (SEPADE)

Rabbi Dr. Richard Gamboa Ben-Eleazar, Secretary- General of the Interfaith Council of Colombia, Manhíg Colombia Jewish of Shéggel

Rev. Milton Mejias, General Secretary, Latin American Colombia Christian Council of Churches (CLAI)

Rev. Gloria Ulloa, World Council of Churches Colombia Christian

Dora Arce Valentín, Head of Justice Program, World / Germany Christian Communion of Reformed Churches

Rt. Rev. Peter Fischer Møller, Bishop of Roskilde Denmark Christian

Dr. Juan Suquillo, Director del Centro Islámico de Ecuador Muslim Ecuador

Kari Mäkinen, Archbishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Finland Christian Church of Finland

Edouard Pihèwa Karoue, International President of France Christian IMCS Pax Romana

Ven. Bhikkhuni Thich Nu Chan Khong, Plum Village France Buddhist International Community of Engaged Buddhists

Msgr. Stanislas Lalanne, Bishop of Pontoise, France CIDSE – International Alliance of Catholic Development France Christian Organisations Friar Joseph Kwame Blay, Parish Priest of Christ the Ghana Christian King

Dr. Dimitra Koukoura. Represents the WCC's Global Christian Forum. Member of the Elijah Board of World Greece Christian Religious Leaders

Miguel Salanic, Coordinador de la Pastoral Indígena Guatemala Christian Continental (AELAPI)

Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo, Bishop Chancellor of the Christian Pontifical Academies of Sciences and Social Sciences

Miriam Miranda, Organización Fraternal Negra Honduras Christian Hondureña, OFRANEH

Fr. Kevin O'Neill, SSC, Superior General, Missionary Hong Kong Christian Society of St. Columban

Ven. Thich Chan Phap Kham, Director, Asian Institute of Applied , Plum Village International Hong Kong Buddhist Community of Engaged Buddhists

Swami Agnivesh, President of the World Council of “Society of Nobles,” Member of the Elijah India Hindu Board of World Religious Leaders

Mata Amritanandamayi, Amma ("Mother"), Member of India Hindu the Elijah Board of World Religious Leaders

Swami Atmapriyananda, Vice Chancellor of Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University, Member India Hindu of the Elijah Board of World Religious Leaders

Rev. Dr. Mar Atsongchanger, President, National India Christian Council of Churches in India

Swamiji Jagadguru Karmayogi Charukeerty Bhattarak, Pontiff of Jain Shravanabelagola Math, Member of the India Hindu Elijah Board of World Religious Leaders

H.H. Swami Chandra, Initiated into the Usadin Order by Mahant Girdhari Dassji. Member of the Elijah Board of India Hindu World Religious Leaders

Swami Chaturvedi, Head of Sri Mission Trust India Hindu (SRMT)

Rev. Dr. Roger Gaikwad, General Secretary, National India Christian Council of Churches in India

Acharya Shri Shrivatsa Goswami. A leading figure in the Vaishnava Tradition. Member of the Elijah Board of India Hindu World Religious Leaders

Cardinal Oswald Gracias, Archbishop of Bombay, President, Federation of Asian ´ Conferences India Christian (FABC) Dr. Imam Umer Ahmed Ilyassi, Chief Imam, All India Organisation of Mosques, Member of the Elijah Board India Muslim of World Religious Leaders

His Holiness Acharya Dr. Lokesh Muni, Vishwa India Jain Bharati

Dr. Wahidudin Khan, Founder of the Islamic Centre - Urdu Islamic Institution, Member of the Elijah Board of India Muslim World Religious Leaders

Rt. Rev. Thomas K. Oommen, Bishop of the Madhya Kerala Diocese of Church of South India and the Deputy India Christian Moderator of Church of South India

Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, Director, Dongyu Gatsal Ling India Buddhist Nunnery

Dr. Mathew Koshy Punnackadu, Nilackal Ecological India Christian Commission Trust Secretary

Skyabgon Chetsang , His Holiness Drikung Kyabgon, Ambassador to UN Global Mountain India Buddhist Partnership

Ven. Khandro Rinpoche. Teacher in both the Kagyu and Nyingma Traditions of . Member of India Buddhist the Elijah Board of World Religious Leaders

Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati, Secretary General, Global Interfaith WASH Alliance, President, Divine Shakti India Hindu Foundation

H.H. Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswati, President Parmarth Niketan, Rishikesh, Co-Founder/Chair Global India Hindu Interfaith WASH Alliance

H.H. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Founder of Art of Living Foundation, Member of the Elijah Board of World India Hindu Religious Leaders

H.H. Pujya Swami, Chidananda Saraswatiji, President India Hindu and Spiritual Head of Parmarth Niketan Ashram

H.H. Radhanath Swami India Hindu

Telesphore Placidus Cardinal Toppo, Cardinal Priest and Archbishop of Ranchi in the Roman Catholic India Christian Church, Member of the Elijah Board of World Religious Leaders

Kesang Wangdi, Executive Director, International India Buddhist Buddhist Confederation

Dr. Fachruddin Majeri Mangunjaya, MSi, Vice Chairman Indonesia Muslim Centre for Islamic Studies Universitas Nasional Prof. Din Syamsuddin, Co-President of Religion for Indonesia Muslim Peace, Leader of Muhammadiyah, Indonesia

Yenny Zannuba Wahid, Director, Wahid Institute Indonesia Muslim

William Crean, Bishop of Cloyne Christian

Chief Rabbi Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron, President of the Israeli Sephardic Community Committee, Member of Israel Jewish the Elijah Board of World Religious Leaders

Rabbi David Bigman, Head of the Maale Gilboa Yeshiva, Israel Jewish Member of the Elijah Board of World Religious Leaders

Rabbi Youval Cherlow, Head of the Chesder Yeshiva of Petach Tikvah, Member of the Elijah Board of World Israel Jewish Religious Leaders

Chief Rabbi Shear Yashuv Cohen, Chief Rabbi of Haifa, Israel Jewish Member of the Elijah Board of World Religious Leaders

Prior Isabelle Flye-Saintmarie, Prioress of the Monastic Family of Bethlehem, the Assumption of the Virgin and Israel Christian St. Bruno, Member of the Elijah Board of World Religious Leaders

Rabbi Michael Melchior, International Director of the Elie Wiesel Foundation, Member of the Elijah Board of Israel Jewish World Religious Leaders

Kadi Ahmed Natour, President of the High Muslim Court of Appeal (Israel). Member of the Elijah Board of Israel Muslim World Religious Leaders

Peta Jones Pellach, Member of the Elijah Interfaith Israel Jewish Institute

Rabbi David Shlomo Rosen CBE, Director of the American Jewish Committee's Department of Israel/ UK Jewish Interreligious Affairs and International President of the World Conference of Religions for Peace

Archbishop Marco Arnolfo, Archdiocese of Vercelli Italy Christian

H.E. Luigi Bressan, Archbishop of Trento, Archdiocese Italy Christian of Trento, Co-President, Religions for Peace

Fr. Bruno Cadoré, OP, Master of the Order of Preachers, Italy Christian Dominicans

Br. Jaime Campos OFM, General Curia of the Order of Italy Christian Friars Minor

Fr. José Ignacio Garcia SJ, Director, Jesuit European Italy Christian Social Centre Bishop Paolo Giulietti, Auxiliary Bishop of Perugia-Città Italy Christian della Pieve

Fr. Michael Perry, OFM Minister General Order of Italy Christian Friars Minor

Rt. Rev Gregory J. Polan, OSB, Abbot Primate of the Italy Christian Benedictine Confederation

Fr. Fernando Millán Romeral, O.Carm, Prior General, Italy Christian Carmelite Order

Yoshitaka Oba, General Director, Soka Gakkai Japan Buddhist International (SGI)

Dr. Agnes Aboum, World Council of Churches, Kenya Christian Moderator of Central Committee

Prof. Azizan Baharuddin, Director General of the Muslim Institute of Islamic Understanding

Dr. John Fozdar, Sarawak Representative, Malaysia Malaysia Interfaith Interfaith Network (MIN)

Khamba Gabju Choijmts Demberel, Supreme Mongolia Buddhist Patriarch of Mongolia.

Dr. Ahmed Taoufiq, Morocco’s Minister of Habous and Islamic Affairs, Member of the Elijah Board of World Morocco Muslim Religious Leaders

Abdelmajid Tribak, Head, Division of Environmental Programmes, Science Directorate, Islamic Educational, Morocco Muslim Scientific & Cultural Organisation (ISESCO)

Dr; Chintamani Yogi, Peace Service Center Nepal Buddhist

Karin van den Broeke, President of the Protestant Netherlands Christain Church

Rabbi Awraham Soetendorp, President, the Jacob Netherlands Jewish Soetendorp Institute for Human Values

Rt. Rev. Apimeleki Qiliho, Anglican Church of the New Zealand / Polynesia Christian Province of Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia

Dr. Robert Howell, Quaker author, researcher and New Zealand Quaker ethical investor

Murray Short, National Clerk, Quakers in Aoteoroa New New Zealand Quaker Zealand

Prof. Paul Trebilco, Professor of New Testament, New Zealand Christian University of Otago Bishop Josiah Idowu-Fearon, Secretary General of the Anglican Communion, Member of the Elijah Board of Nigeria Christian World Religious Leaders

Ingrid Rosendorf Joys, Executive Chair, The Council of Norway Christian Religious and Lifestance Communities in Norway

Imam Ibrahim Saidy, Founder of Green for Peace and Sustainable Development and Member of the Norway Muslim Imam Council of Norway

Archbishop John Ribat, President of the Federation of Catholic Bishops Conferences of Oceania and the Oceania Christian Catholic Bishops Conference of Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands

Muhammad Suheyl Umar, Director of Iqbal Academy Muslim Pakistan, Member of the Elijah Interfaith Academy

Lourdes Valencia Arsenio, Convenor, Laudato Si Movement for Laguna Lakes and Climate Change, Philippines Christian Archdiocese of Manila Ministry on Ecology

Most Rev. Broderick S. Pabillo, D.D, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Manila, Chairman of the Episcopal Philippines Christian Commission on the Laity

Rt. Rev. Jonathan Labasan Casimina, Bishop of Davao Philippines Christian

Fr. John Leydon, Global Catholic Climate Movement Philippines Christian Pilipinas, Missionary Society of St. Columban (MSSC)

Merlinda Marcon, Archdiocese of Manila Ministry on Philippines Christian Environment Disaster Response

Bernadette Yap, Catholic Stewards of Creation, Inc. Philippines Christian

Neeshad Shafi, Founding Member of CAN Arab World Mulim

Rabbi Menachem Hacohen, Chief Rabbi of Romania, Romania Jewish Member of the Elijah Board of World Religious Leaders

Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar, Chairman of the Rabbinical Council of the World Congress of Russian Jewry. Russia Jewish Member of the Elijah Board of World Religious Leaders

Othman Abd-ar-Rahman Llewellyn, Environmental Planner, Saudi Wildlife Authority, Saudi Arabia and Saudi Arabia Muslim Member, IUCN Commissions on Protected Areas & Environmental Law

Most Ven. Thibbatuwawe Sri Siddhartha Sumangala Thero - Mahanayaka of the Malwatta Chapter of Siyam Sri Lanka Buddhist Nikaya

Most Ven. Warakagoda Sri Gnanarathana Thero - Sri Lanka Buddhist Mahanayaka of the Asgiriya Chapter of Siyam Nikaya Most Ven. Davuldena Sri Gnanissara Thero - Supreme Sri Lanka Buddhist Mahanayaka of Amarapura Nikaya

Most Ven. Napana Pemasiri Thera - Mahanayaka of the Sri Lanka Buddhist Sri Lanka Ramanna Nikaya

Most Ven. Ittapane Dhammalankara Thera - Mahanayaka of the Kotte Sri Kalyani Samagri Dharma Sri Lanka Buddhist Mahasangha Sabha of Siyam Nikaya

Most Ven. Thrikunamale Ananda Thero - Mahanayaka Sri Lanka Buddhist of the Dharmarakshitha Chapter of Amarapura Nikaya

Ven. Dr. Bhikkhuni Kusuma. Pioneered the re- establishment of the female Bhikkhuni Buddhist order. Sri Lanka Buddhist Member of the Elijah Board of World Religious Leaders

Rev. Dr. Allan Aubrey Boesak, Executive Director and Chair of the Desmond Tutu Center and National President, Association of Christian Students in South South Christian Africa and National Vice President, South African Council of Churches

Most Rev. Dr. Thabo Makgoba, Primate of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, ACT Alliance Climate Justice Christian Ambassador, Chair Anglican Environment Network

Rev. Dr. Rachel Mash, Provincial Environmental South Africa Christian Coordinator, Anglican Church of Southern Africa

Archbishop of the Orthodox Archbishopric of and Angola Serafim Kykkotis, Head of the Office on Climate Change Crisis and Poverty of the South Africa Christian/ Orthodox Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and all Africa

Dr. Chad Nicholas Gandiya, Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Harare of the Church of the Province of South Africa Christian Central Africa (CPCA)

Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town, The Most Rev. South Africa Christian Desmond Tutu

Ven. Prof. Jinwol Sunim, President of United Religions Initiative of Korea, Member of the Elijah Board of South Korea Buddhist World Religious Leaders

Dharmachari Guhyapati, Ecodharma Centre Buddhist

Rev. Henrik Grape, Coordinator of the WCC Working Christian Group on Climate Change, Church of Sweden

Archbishop Dr. Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of Uppsala Sweden Christian in Sweden and Primate of the Church of Sweden

Bishop Emeritus Lennart Koskinen, Bishop of Visby and the Church of Sweden Overseas, Member of the Sweden Christian Elijah Board of World Religious Leaders Anders Wejryd, President for Europe, World Council of Sweden Christian Churches, Archbishop emeritus Church of Sweden

Swami Amarananda, Director of the Centre Védantique in Geneva, Member of the Elijah Board of World Switzerland Hindu Religious Leaders

Fr. Markus Heinze, Executive Director, Franciscans Switzerland Christian International

Rev. Dr. Martin Junge, General Secretary of the Switzerland/ Chile Christian Lutheran World Federation

Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit, General Secretary, World Switzerland/ Norway Christian Council of Churches

Dharma Master Hsin Tao, Founder, Museum of World Religions, Ling Jiou Mountain Buddhist Society, Global Taiwan Buddhist Family for Love and Peace

Dharma Master Cheng Yen, Founder, Buddhist Tzu Chi Taiwan Buddhist Foundation

Ven. Phra Dharmakosajarn, Rector of Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University (MCU), Thailand Buddhist Member of the Elijah Board of World Religious Leaders

H.H the Drikung Kyabgön Chetsang Tibet Buddhist

H.H the 17th Gyalwang Ogyen Trinley Dorje Tibet Buddhist

H.H the Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama Tibet Buddhist

H.E the 12th Tai Situpa Rinpoche Tibet Buddhist

H.H the Sakya Trizin, Supreme Head of the Sakya Tibet Buddhist of Tibetan Buddhism

Archbishop Zakeos Mesrob, 84th Armenian Patriarch of Istanbul & All Turkey, Member of the Elijah Board of Turkey Christian World Religious Leaders

Ven. Buddharakkhita (Africa), founder, Uganda Buddhist Uganda Buddhist Centre

Bishop Nathan Kyamanywa, Bunyoro-Kitara Diocese Uganda Christian

Bhai Sahib Bhai Mohinder Singh Ahluwalia, Chairman, UK Sikh Nishkam Sewak Jatha (GNNSJ)

Andy Atkins, CEO, A Rocha UK UK Christian

Kiran Bali MBE JP, Global Chairperson, United UK Hindu Religions Initiative Rt. Rev. Dr. Russell Barr, Moderator of the General UK Christian Assembly of the Church of

Rev. Dave Bookless, Director of Theology, A Rocha UK Christian

Rob Burbea, Resident Teacher, Gaia House UK Buddhist

Rt. Rev. Dr Richard Cheetham, Bishop of Kingston, UK Christian Church of England

Most Rev. David Chillingworth, Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane and Primus of the Scottish UK Christian Episcopal Church.

Prof. David Clough, Professor of Theological Ethics, UK Christian University of Chester

Rt. Rev. John Davies, Bishop of Swansea and Brecon UK Christian

Rev Sally Foster-Fulton, Head of Christian Aid Scotland UK Christian

Ram Gidoomal CBE, Chairman, South Asian UK Christian Development Partnership

Canon Giles Goddard, General Synod, Church of UK Christian England

Naser Haghamed, CEO, Islamic Relief Worldwide UK Muslim

Rt. Rev. Nicholas Holtam, Bishop of Salisbury, Church UK Christian of England

Dr. Shahrul Hussain, Trustee, Abrahamic Foundation UK Muslim

Kirsten Kratz, Guiding Teacher, Gaia House, Insight UK Centre

Fazlun Khalid, Founder-Director of the Islamic Foundation for Ecology and Environmental Science UK Muslim (IFEES)

Sr. Jayanti Kirplani, Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual UK Brahma Kumaris University

Rabbi Natan Levy, Teaching Fellow, Leo Baeck College UK Jewish

Catherine McGee, Guiding Teacher, Gaia House, Insight UK Buddhist Meditation Centre

Most Rev. Barry Morgan, Archbishop of UK Christian

Dr. Shuruq Naguib, Lecturer in the department of UK Muslim Politics, Philosophy and Religion, Lancaster University Jeffrey Newman, Rabbi Emeritus of Finchley Reform Synagogue and Adviser to the International Secretariat UK Jewish of www.EarthCharter.org

Very Rev. , Dean of Salisbury, Member of UK Christian the Elijah Board of World Religious Leaders

Martin Palmer, Secretary General, Alliance and UK Christian Religious Conservation (ARC)

Paul Parker, Recording Clerk, Quakers in Britain UK Christian

Rev. Dr. David Pickering, Minister of St Andrew's Leeds and Moderator of the United Reformed Church's UK Christian National Synod of Scotland

Yanai Postelnik, Guiding Teacher, Gaia House, Insight UK Buddhist Meditation Centre

Imam Abduljalil Sajid, Chairman of Muslim Council for Religious and Racial Harmony (MCRRH) and one of the UK Muslim Founders of the Muslim Council of Britain, Member of the Elijah Board of World Religious Leaders

Mary Sweetland, Chair of Eco-Congregation Scotland UK Christian

Bishop Joseph Toal, Diocese of Motherwell, Scotland UK Christian

Rt. Hon Dr. , former Archbishop of UK Christian Canterbury

Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg, Rabbi of the New North London Synagogue and Senior Rabbi of The Assembly UK Jewish of Masorti Synagogues UK, Member of the Elijah Board of World Religious Leaders

Bishop Michele Frank Pollesel, Bishop of the Diocese of Uruguay Christian Uruguay

Sheikh Muhammad Nur Abdallah, Imam and Director for the Islamic Foundation of Greater St. Louis, Member USA Muslim of the Elijah Board of World Religious Leaders

Imam Johari Abdul-Malik, Director of Outreach, Dar al- USA Muslim Hijrah Islamic Center

Ibrahm Abdul-Matin, author of "Green Deen: What USA Muslim Islam Teaches About Protecting the Planet."

Ivan Abrahams, General Secretary, World Methodist USA Christian Council

Aisha H.L al-Adawiya, Founder and Chair, Women In USA Muslim Islam Inc. Sahar Alsahlani, Member of the Executive Council of Religions for Peace USA, Representative of the Al Khoei USA Muslim Foundation

Rt. Rev. Marc Handley Andrus, Bishop, Episcopal USA Christian Diocese of California

Rev. Dr. Neddy Astudillo, GreenFaith Latin America USA Christian Coordinator

Azhar Azeez, President of Islamic Society of North USA Muslim America (ISNA)

Dr. Y. Mossa Basha, Chairman, Muslim American Coalition, Member of the Elijah Board of World USA Muslim Religious Leaders

Rt. Rev. Mark M. Beckwith, Bishop of Newark USA Christian

Br. Clark Berge SSF, Minister General, Society of St. USA Christian Francis

Ven. Anandabodhi Bhikkhuni, Co-founder of Aloka USA Buddhist Vihara Forest Monastery

Ven. Santacitta Bhikkhuni, Co-founder of Aloka Vihara USA Buddhist Forest Monastery

Ven. Santussika Bhikkhuni, Karuna Buddhist Vihara and Founder of Buddhist Climate Action Network USA Buddhist (BCAN)

Ven. , Founder, Buddhist Global Relief USA Buddhist

Tara Brach, Insight Meditation Community of USA Buddhist Washington, Senior Teacher and Founder

Prof. Rev. Walter Brueggemann, Professor Emeritus, USA Christian Columbia Theological Seminary

Patrick Carolan, Executive Director, Franciscan Action USA Christian Network

Gretchen Castle, General Secretary of Friends World USA Quaker Committee for Consultation

Imam Saffet Abid Catovic, Chairman Green Muslims of USA/ Bosnia Muslim New Jersey (GMNJ)

Ven. Thubten Chodron, Founder and Abbess of Sravasti USA Buddhist Abbey

Roy (Bud) Cederholm, Bishop Suffragan of the USA Christian Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts

Colin Christopher, Executive Director, Green Muslims USA Muslim Rev. Dr. Miguel A. De La Torre, Professor of Social USA Christian Ethics and Latinx Studies at the Iliff School of Theology

Prof.Celia Deane-Drummond, Professor of Theology, USA Christian Moral Theology/Christian Ethics, Systematic Theology

Imam Plemon El-Amin, Resident Imam of the Atlanta Masjid of Al-Islam, Member of the Elijah Board of USA Muslim World Religious Leaders

Shaykh Mohamed-Umer Esmail, Nueces Mosque USA Muslim

Ven. Norman Fischer, Founder and Teacher of the Everyday Foundation, Member of the Elijah Board USA Buddhist of World Religious Leaders

Rabbi Pamela Frydman, Rabbis for Religious Freedom USA Jewish and Equality in Israel

Prof. Roger S. Gottlieb, Professor of Philosophy at USA Jewish Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Rabbi Arthur Green, Rector, Rabbinical School, Hebrew USA Jewish College, Newton MA

Most Rev. Frank T. Griswold, Former Presiding Bishop, Primate and Chief Pastor of the Episcopal Church, USA Christian President of the House of Bishops, Member of the Elijah Board of World Religious Leaders

Rev. Joan Jiko Halifax, Abbot of Upaya Zen Center USA Buddhist

Jaydee Hanson, Virginia Conference United Methodist USA Christian Board of Church & Society

Rev. Fletcher Harper, Executive Director,GreenFaith USA Interfaith

Rev. Martin Hauser. Pastor, Grace and St.Paul's Church USA Christian

Prof. Jennifer Herdt, Professor of Christian Ethics and USA Christian Religious Studies, Yale University

Tomas Insua, Executive Director, Global Catholic USA Christian Climate Movement (GCCM)

Dr. Pankaj Jain, Associate Professor, University of USA Jain Nortth Texas

Shaykh Hisham Kabbani, Founder and Chairman of the Islamic Supreme Council of America, Member of the USA Muslim Elijah Board of World Religious Leaders

Dr. Jack Kornfield, Founder of the Spirit Rock Center USA Buddhist

Gerry Lee, Executive Director, Maryknoll Office for USA Christian Global Concerns Rabbi Mordechai Liebling, Director, Tikkun Olam Commission of the Jewish Reconstructionist USA Jewish Communities

Dr. Erin Lothes, Assistant Professor of Theology at the USA Catholic College of Saint Elizabeth

David R. Loy, Zen Teacher in the Sanbo Zen Tradition of USA Buddhist Japanese Buddhism

Rabbi Richard Marker, Vice Chair of the International Jewish Committee on Interreligious Consultations, USA Jewish Member of the Elijah Board of World Religious Leaders

Rabbi Natan Martin, Direcor of Student Life, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (RRC) and USA Jewish Associate Rabbi at Congregation Beth Israel

Sr. Patricia McDermott, RSM, President of the Sisters of USA Christian Mercy of the Americas

Metropolitan Nikitas Lulias, Member of the Elijah USA Christian Board of World Religious Leaders

Lama Willa Milla, Natural Dharma Fellowship USA Buddhist

Rev. Peter Morales, President, Unitarian Universalist USA Christian Association

Dr. T. Kenjitsu Nakagaki, President of the Buddhist USA Christian Council of New York

Beth Norcross, Founding Director, the Center for USA Spiritual Spirituality in Nature

Rev. Dr. John T. Pawlikowski, OSM, Ph.D, Director of USA Christian Catholic-Jewish Studies Program, University of Chicago

Br. Michael Potvin-Frost, Order of Franciscan Hermits USA Christian

Diane Randall, Executive Secretary, Friends Committee USA Quaker on National Legislation

Prof. Larry L. Rasmussen, is Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics emeritus at Union USA Christian Theological Seminary and author (with Dieter Hessel) of Earth Community

Dr. Joerg Rieger, Cal Turner Chancellor's Chair in Wesleyan Studies and Distinguished Professor of USA Christian Theology at the Divinity School and the Graduate Program in Religion at Vanderbilt University

Dr. Donald Rothberg, Leader in Socially Engaged Spirituality, Spirit Rock Center; East Bay Meditation USA Buddhist Center Dr. Nicolae Roddy, Associate Professor of Theology at USA Jewish Creighton University,

Richard Rohr, O.F.M, Founding Director and Academic USA Catholic Dean of the Living School for Action and Contemplation

Imam Al-Hajj Talib ‘Abdur-Rashid, Vice President of USA Muslim The Muslim Alliance in North America

Dr. Saiyid Masroor Shah, Chairman of Green Masjid USA Muslim Task Force

Imam Zaid Shakir, Co-founder and Chairman of Student USA Muslim Affairs at Zaytuna College

Dr. Muzammil H. Siddiqi, Chairman of the Fiqh (Islamic USA Muslim Law) Council of North America (FCNA)

Rev.Dr. Ronald Sider, Evangelicals for Social Action USA Christian

Dr. Rajwant Singh, Founder and President of EcoSikh USA Sikh

Shakeel Syed, Executive Director, Islamic Shura Council USA Muslim of Southern California

Dr. Sayyid M. Syeed, National Director for the Office for Interfaith & Community Alliances for the Islamic USA Muslim Society of North America

Rabbi Lawrence Troster, Founder of Shomrei Breishit USA Jewish

Mary Evelyn Tucker, Co-Director, Yale Forum on USA Interfaith Religion and Ecology

Shaikh Mohamed Umer-Esmail, Imam of the Nueces USA Muslim Mosque

Rabbi Arthur Waskow, Executive Director, Shalom USA Jewish Center

Thanissara Mary Weinberg, Founder, Sacred Mountain USA Buddhist Sangha

Prof. Norman Wirzba, Professor of Theology, Ecology, and Agrarian Studies at Duke Divinty School; Senior USA Christian Fellow at the Kenan Institute for Ethics

Rev. Suzanne Matale, General Secretary, Council of Christian Churches of Zambia

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33 ​faith-based ​organisations ​from across the world​: ACT Alliance, ​ACT Alianza, Anglican Church of Australia, Australian Religious Response to Climate Change (ARRCC), Bhumi Project, Bishop John Henderson’s Office, Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University, Catholic Earthcare Australia, Consejo Latinoamericano de Iglesias (CLAI) Christian Aid, Eco Friendly Volunteers (ECO-V), EcoSikh, Elijah Interfaith Institute, Faith for the Climate Network in England, Federation of Australian Buddhist Councils Inc, Federación Universal de Movimientos Estudiantiles Cristianos (FUMEC), Franciscan Action Network (FAN) - Friends Committee on National Legislation, FOCSIV, Global Catholic Climate Movement (GCCM), Global Muslim Climate Movement (GMCN), GreenFaith, Green Muslims, Islamic Relief Worldwide, Jain Ecology, Lutheran World Federation, Multifaith Association of South Australia, One Earth Sangha, Quaker Office, The Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology, Tri-State Coalition for Responsible Investment, Trócaire, United Religions Initiative (URI) and World Council of Churches (WCC).​