Climate Change Conversations from Healthcare, Religious and Secular World Leaders
There are conversations regarding climate change taking place amongst our religious and world leaders as well as some of those in the healthcare field. These conversations are happening because of the dire effects that climate change is causing for us now and will cause for future generations. People from around the world are coming to together to discuss changes that are being made and changes that need to be made in the future so that the world we know will continue to operate as we need it to. An article dated 23 September 2009 from the US Fed News Service reported on a Summit on Climate Change held at the United Nations headquarters, where over 100 Heads
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. . plans for developing ethical investment policies: greening different religious buildings; protecting sacred forests; printing sacred books on environmentally friendly paper (Rollosson, The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Working with Faith Representatives to Address Climate Change 422). United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was a cohost at this summit and in his keynote address he commended the faith representatives. He stated that political leaders must understand that the public expects action now. Faith communities can help communicate this message . . . You can inspire, you can provoke, you can challenge your political leaders, through your wisdom, through your power, through your followers (Rollosson, The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Working with Faith Representatives to Address Climate Change 423). This summit enabled secular and religious leaders to show the world the benefit of having both groups come together to discuss climate change and to use the influence they have on another to take appropriate