Call for Climate Action

I signed onto interfaith petition to President Elect Obama on Climate Control. You can sign on too here.

Call for Climate ActionInterfaith Petition toPresident-elect Barack Obama

We, the undersigned, of diverse faith traditions, stand together as brothers and sisters dedicated to finding solutions to global warming and the threat it poses to Creation. We urge you to take swift and meaningful action to avoid catastrophic climate change.

Global warming is a moral crisis that people of faith care deeply about. It endangers the lifesupport systems for all that God created and puts the most vulnerable at immediate risk. It is the world’s poor, who have contributed least to this problem, who will suffer the most.

Inaction cannot be an option. Interfaith Power and Light represents over 5,000 congregations of

all major religions throughout the country. For the past eight years, our congregations have been

changing light bulbs, installing solar rooftops and geo-thermal systems and shrinking our carbon

footprints. We’ve shown that it can be done. But we know that our actions alone will not be

enough to stem the tide of global warming.

It is past time for the U.S. to take a leadership role in this crisis. You have thoughtfully addressed climate change policy in your campaign and have embraced clean energy policy solutions. As president, we ask you to enact those solutions into law.

Please act quickly to ensure the future of our planet, and of generations to come, by implementing our clean energy agenda:

1. Make Climate Policies Equitable and Just

• Provide energy efficiency to low-income families

• Create 5 million green collar jobs

• Provide adaptation assistance to undeveloped nations

2. Green the Electricity Sector

• Move America toward a 100% clean energy future by maximizing energy efficiency,

modernizing the grid, and greatly expanding power generation from renewable energy

resources

3. Cap Emissions and Auction the Permits

• Reduce emissions by 35% below 1990 levels by 2020 and 80% by 2050

• Work with other nations to accelerate these reductions as needed to avoid further warming

beyond 2º F

• Auction 100% of credits and direct revenue to developing a massive clean energy

transition, creating green jobs, and protecting vulnerable communities

4. Clean up Transportation

• Invest in clean mass transit infrastructure, increase fuel economy standards, and develop

alternative fuels

5. Stop New Coal

• Put a moratorium on new coal-fired power plants until and unless carbon emissions can be

captured and permanently sequestered