Concerted, Connected, and Consultative Action Amidst Code Red for Humanity by Dr. Elena Mustakova
The recent 26th Conference of Parties
environmental initiatives, indigenous
(COP 26) in Glasgow on addressing
and inter-spiritual initiatives, and
climate change made clear that
secular activism. The question now
governments are too embedded in
is how to coordinate these into a
existing power-and-greed structures
massive citizens-driven movement
to call a climate emergency and
scaled up to an effective and rapid
to initiate the scaled-up action
global impact.
now needed to forestall climate catastrophe. The global climate
We have excellent examples of how
movement and the Earth Charter[1]
faith and Interfaith communities in
have established the essential shift of
different parts of the world mobilize
values needed at this tipping point
for collective action. According to the
toward conscious world citizenship
Alliance for Religion and Conservation,
and an ethic of care for all life on the
there are now about 1.5 million
planet.
environmental projects run by world religions, engaging over 700 faiths.
The global movement for planetary
In 2022, FaithInvest is launching the
regeneration found expression in the
largest collective movement of faith
Global Regeneration Summit, run by
projects around the world.
Ubiquity University parallel to the COP 26[2]. Represented in this movement
We have compelling examples of
are three strands – faith-based
transformation at the level of local 38
