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Islamic Climate Change Declaration
August 12, 2015
Islamic Relief is to co-host an international Symposium in Istanbul next week, in which an ‘Islamic Declaration on Climate Change’ will be launched ahead of a pivotal conference later this year.

The Symposium on 17-18 August is seen as a vital platform in ensuring that the Islamic perspective on climate change is heard ahead of the UN Climate Change conference, which has been marked as potentially the “last chance” to save humanity from global warming.

Islamic Relief Worldwide will be co-hosting the Islamic Climate Change Symposium in Istanbul with Islamic Foundation for Ecology & Environmental Sciences (IFEES) and GreenFaith. The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Islamic Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation will also be joint collaborators in this major international Symposium. Senior international development policy makers, leaders of faith groups, academics, religious leaders, activists, civil society representatives and other renowned experts from around the world will come together to launch the Islamic Declaration on Climate Change…