Environmental activism is taking root in Islam | Adam Khyas for the Conversation
by Adam Khyas for the Conversation from on (#J1VP)
A group of Islamic scholars have called on the world's 1.6 billion Muslims to take action on climate change. Religious principles support them
Muslims have a religious duty to take action against climate change, according to a declaration released by a major group of Islamic scholars, faith leaders and politicians from 20 countries. The Islamic Declaration on Global Climate Change, launched in Istanbul, is aimed at the world's 1.6 billion Muslims and suggests mosques and Islamic schools should immediately take action.
In using religious authority to call for stronger climate-change policies at the UN summit in Paris this December, the Islamic declaration follows a similar intervention by the pope earlier in the year.
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