Because who doesn’t look to the U.N. for moral guidance?
Via HuffPo:
Top UN official Christiana Figueres called on religious leaders to speak out on climate change in an impassioned op-ed for The Guardian. She is Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Figueres framed climate change as a moral and ethical issue as well as an economic and environmental one and stressed the need for urgent action ahead of a new climate agreement in 2015.
“It is time for faith groups and religious institutions to find their voice and set their moral compass on one of the great humanitarian issues of our time,” she wrote.
On a practical and actionable level, Figueres urged religious leaders to pull their investments in fossil fuel companies and encourage their followers to do so as well.
The divestment movement is gaining steam all over the world as universities and local authorities get involved. In 2013, the United Church of Christ (UCC) became the first national faith group to vote in favor of divesting from fossil fuel companies. Since then, eleven other religious institutions have followed suit.