{"id":8808,"date":"2022-02-19T16:04:15","date_gmt":"2022-02-19T16:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ummah4earth.org\/?p=8808"},"modified":"2022-02-19T16:33:38","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T16:33:38","slug":"the-islamic-declaration-on-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ummah4earth.org\/en\/story\/8808\/the-islamic-declaration-on-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"The Islamic Declaration on Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"538\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-ummah-stateless\/2022\/02\/03254927-photo-also-an-optio-of-the-others-didnt-work--1024x538.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8806\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-ummah-stateless\/2022\/02\/03254927-photo-also-an-optio-of-the-others-didnt-work--1024x538.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-ummah-stateless\/2022\/02\/03254927-photo-also-an-optio-of-the-others-didnt-work--300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-ummah-stateless\/2022\/02\/03254927-photo-also-an-optio-of-the-others-didnt-work--768x404.png 768w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-ummah-stateless\/2022\/02\/03254927-photo-also-an-optio-of-the-others-didnt-work--1536x807.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-ummah-stateless\/2022\/02\/03254927-photo-also-an-optio-of-the-others-didnt-work--2048x1076.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-ummah-stateless\/2022\/02\/03254927-photo-also-an-optio-of-the-others-didnt-work--510x268.png 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<p><strong>What do you know about the Islamic Declaration on Climate Change?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>On 18 August 2018, the Islamic Declaration on Climate Change was announced during the International Islamic Climate Change Symposium in Turkey. This declaration was developed jointly by a group of Muslim scholars, academics, faith leaders and environmentalists including several Ummah for Earth alliance members.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>How was it developed?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>The IFEES\/EcoIslam and the Islamic Relief WorldWide teamed up in 2014 and started pushing towards this initiative. After some initial research a first draft was created by May 2015 and shared worldwide on the websites of IFEES\/EcoIslam, Islamic Relief Worldwide, Climate Action Network and the Forum on Religion and Ecology. The efforts continued until a synthesis draft was discussed during the International Islamic Climate Change Symposium where the Declaration was launched.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>\u201cA mercy to all beings\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>The Islamic Declaration on Climate Change calls on Muslims worldwide to engage in global climate movement and to tackle \u201cenvironmental degradation and the loss of biodiversity\u201d.<\/p>\n\n<p>The declaration aims to educate billions of Muslims about the significant impacts of climate change, and considers that the implementation of sustainable solutions is a moral and religious duty.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>In the declaration, faith leaders called for zero emissions and reiterated the need for clean energy sources for a sustainable future for everyone.<\/p>\n\n<p>Read the full <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifees.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/climate_declarationmmwb.pdf\">declaration here<\/a>, and share it with your friends, family members and anyone you know who would be interested to find out more.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"724\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-ummah-stateless\/2022\/02\/1e6ac368-english__final-724x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8809\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-ummah-stateless\/2022\/02\/1e6ac368-english__final-724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-ummah-stateless\/2022\/02\/1e6ac368-english__final-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-ummah-stateless\/2022\/02\/1e6ac368-english__final-768x1086.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-ummah-stateless\/2022\/02\/1e6ac368-english__final-1086x1536.jpg 1086w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-ummah-stateless\/2022\/02\/1e6ac368-english__final-966x1366.jpg 966w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-ummah-stateless\/2022\/02\/1e6ac368-english__final-240x340.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-ummah-stateless\/2022\/02\/1e6ac368-english__final.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<p>Tell us in the comments below what you think of the declaration, and how we as an Ummah4Earth can help envision and create a more sustainable future for the planet and all its living inhabitants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you know about the Islamic Declaration on Climate Change?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":8806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"Ummah For Earth","p4_local_project":"not set","p4_basket_name":"Climate & Energy","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6],"p4-page-type":[16],"class_list":["post-8808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-climate","p4-page-type-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ummah4earth.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ummah4earth.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ummah4earth.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ummah4earth.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ummah4earth.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8808"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ummah4earth.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8814,"href":"https:\/\/ummah4earth.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8808\/revisions\/8814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ummah4earth.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ummah4earth.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ummah4earth.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ummah4earth.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8808"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ummah4earth.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=8808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}