Interview with Rabbi Tamir Nir at the Religious Education in the Era of Climate Change Summit
What role can local government play in bridging religious education and environmental policy? In this interview from the Religious Education in the Era of Climate Change Summit, Rabbi Tamir Nir, Deputy Mayor with an Environmental Portfolio in the Jerusalem Municipality, offers a unique perspective shaped by his dual role as both a religious figure and a civic leader. His position provides valuable insight into how faith-based values can directly inform municipal environmental policy, illustrating a practical intersection between religious leadership and local government action on climate issues. This interview highlights how someone with theological grounding can bring spiritual and ethical considerations into the more concrete, policy-driven world of city governance, offering a model for how religious education might evolve to prepare future leaders for this kind of dual engagement. His remarks contribute a distinctive municipal governance perspective to the broader conversation on religious education’s role in addressing the climate crisis.
Dr Saleemul Huq Discussing Islamic Climate Change Declaration
What role can Islamic teaching play in shaping a formal global response to climate change? In this talk, Dr. Saleemul Huq discusses the Islamic Climate Change Declaration, exploring how this landmark document draws on Islamic principles to call for urgent, faith-driven climate action. He examines the significance of the declaration as both a theological statement and a practical mobilization tool, uniting Muslim communities worldwide around a shared moral responsibility to address environmental degradation. Dr. Huq’s insights highlight how the declaration positions Islamic teaching as directly relevant to contemporary climate policy, offering a framework rooted in justice, stewardship, and care for creation. This discussion underscores the growing influence of major world religions in shaping global climate discourse, with the Islamic Climate Change Declaration standing as a significant milestone in faith-based environmental advocacy. Those interested in learning more can visit envisionation.co.uk for further details on the declaration. Please visit: http://envisionation.co.uk/index.php/islamic-declaration
Fazlun Khalid Interview – IFEES
What inspired the founding of one of the world’s pioneering Islamic environmental organizations? In this interview, Fazlun Khalid, founder of the Islamic Foundation for Ecology and Environmental Sciences (IFEES), shares his perspective on the intersection of Islamic teaching and environmental responsibility. Khalid discusses the theological foundations behind IFEES’s work, exploring how Islamic principles of stewardship, balance, and care for creation directly inform practical environmental action. As a leading voice in Islamic environmentalism, his insights shed light on how faith-based organizations like IFEES have worked to mobilize Muslim communities around ecological issues, long before climate change became a mainstream global concern. This interview offers valuable context on the roots and mission of Islamic environmental advocacy, highlighting Khalid’s role in shaping how Islamic teaching engages with contemporary ecological challenges. http://envisionation.co.uk/index.php/islamic-declaration/142-fazlun-khalid-islamic-foundation-for-ecology-environmental-sciences-ifees
Dr. Abdulkadir Balonde – Chairman, Uganda Supreme Muslim Council
What does Islamic leadership in Uganda have to say about the intersection of faith and environmental responsibility? This video features Dr. Abdulkadir Balonde, Chairman of the Uganda Supreme Muslim Council, offering a perspective from East African Islamic leadership on matters relevant to the broader interfaith environmental movement. As a senior figure within Uganda’s Muslim community, Dr. Balonde brings a regional and cultural dimension to the global conversation on faith and sustainability, representing how Islamic institutions in different parts of the world are engaging with environmental and ecological concerns. His involvement highlights the geographic diversity within Islamic environmental advocacy, extending the movement’s reach beyond more frequently featured voices to include African Muslim leadership.
02 Dr Matt Watson – Principal Investigator For SPICE
Dr Matthew Watson – School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol Principal Investigator, Work Package 1 Leader Matt Watson is the Principle Investigator for SPICE. His research involves inversion of remotely-sensed data to retrieve physical parameters of volcanic plumes and clouds over several spatial scales, using both ground- and satellite-based techniques. These include ultraviolet (DOAS) and thermal infrared (ASTER) gas spectroscopy, and visible, near infrared (Sun-photometers) and thermal infrared aerosol retrievals (MODIS, AIRS).
Geoengineering the Climate SRMS Cambridge 2015
14.00 Keynote Lecture: Tom Ackerman 14.30 Keynote Lecture: Matthew Watson 15.30 Session 4: Atmospheric Effects. Chair: Matthew Watson Francis Pope ‘Atmospheric chemistry of mineral particles in the stratosphere: implications for ozone chemistry and stratospheric particle injection’ Graham Mann ‘Quantifying the radiative forcing from the 1991 Mt Pinatubo eruption’ Peter Davidson ‘The impact, implications and consequences of the use of manufactured particles to improve the feasibility and reduce risk for a Stratospheric Solar Radiation Management (SRM) Insurance’ Peter Irvine ‘Detection, Attribution and Climate Control – the Limits to Solar Radiation Management’ 17.00 End
Multi Year Ice Loss In The Arctic – Professor Peter Wadhams – Climate Change Series
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Survivable IPCC projections based on science fiction – reality is far worse
The Ecologist Article Can be seen here: http://goo.gl/G9h1Gr More posts by Nick Breeze: https://genn.cc In the latest ‘Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 5th Assessment Report’ (IPCC AR5), there have been published a selection of ‘Representative Concentration Pathways’ (RCP’s). Dr Matt Watson, from the school of earth Sciences at the University of Bristol (UK), made this point strongly at a recent meeting at the Royal Society in London: “Why are we doing this? Why are we doing this research? This is why, this is the latest projections from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and the alarming thing is that these two scenarios [RCP 2.6 and RCP 4.5] both include negative emissions technology. So, there is geoengineering, of the flavour of carbon dioxide removal, in the best case scenarios. The very, very alarming thing for us is that we are on this path here, that is RCP 8.5. We are slap…
‘Climate Engineering – who can we trust?’ Panel Discussion
The panel discussion on ‘Climate Engineering – who can we trust?’ will be held at 7pm on Friday, March 13, at Lady Mitchell Hall on the Sidgwick Site. Whilst this event is being organised as part of Solar Radiation Management Science