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Religious leaders hand 60 plans on climate change to the UN

Leaders of nine major faiths have presented 60 ideas to lessen carbon emissions to the United Nations after Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon singled out the religious community as key in fighting climate change - writes Trevor Grundy. Full Article at Ekklesia

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  1. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
  2. United Nations
  3. European Union

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  4. European Union European Union
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