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“Corporations, governments and financial institutions must stop initiating new oil and gas exploration and replace fossil fuels with energy sources that are friendly to the planet and those of us who inhabit it,” said Archbishop Jorge Eduardo Lozano of San Juan de Cuyo (Argentina), the general secretary of CELAM (the Latin American Episcopal Council), as religious leaders of different faiths called for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty.
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom: 12.0pt;margin-left:0in">As world leaders prepare for the next United Nations summit on climate change, representatives of world religions have lent support for a proposed international treaty to facilitate a fair and rapid phaseout of fossil fuels that drive global warming.<o:p></o:p></p>