The petition is based on the Nairobi Communique, arising from a pan-African meeting of faith leaders on climate change in Nairobi earlier this year.
Among the participants will be South African Council of Churches general secretary Rev Mautji Pataki, South African Faith Communities' Environment Institute executive director Bishop Geoff Davies, Indalo Yethu CEO June Josephs-Langa and Sheik Ridwaan Galant of the Muslim Judicial Council.
The threat of climate change is not just a scientific concern but a profound ethical challenge that demands leadership from all sectors of society.
According to the petition, Africa and its multitude of vulnerable communities are believed to be among those who will be hardest hit by the temperature increases, droughts and severe weather events that climate change is already bringing. Yet the continent is already struggling to meet the needs of all its people.
Poverty, unemployment and rampant overconsumption of scarce natural resources are all consequences of the flawed development that has caused humankind to change the earth's weather patterns to such an extent that life on earth is now threatened. Read the full report here.
Source: The New Age.
