{"id":12190,"date":"2018-12-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/nieuws\/dalai-lamas-message-to-global-climate-summit-shows-need-for-urgent-action-in-tibet\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T23:00:00","slug":"dalai-lamas-message-to-global-climate-summit-shows-need-for-urgent-action-in-tibet","status":"publish","type":"nieuws","link":"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/en\/news\/dalai-lamas-message-to-global-climate-summit-shows-need-for-urgent-action-in-tibet\/","title":{"rendered":"Dalai Lama\u2019s message to global climate summit shows need for urgent action in Tibet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As a native of one of the world\u2019s most beautiful and endangered landscapes, the Dalai Lama has sent his prayers and advice to the largest annual global climate change summit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe have to take serious action now to protect our environment and find constructive solutions to global warming,\u201d the Tibetan spiritual leader wrote in a message to the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, known as the COP24 Climate Conference.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The event, taking place now in the Polish city of Katowice, has brought together delegates from nearly 200 countries to create a roadmap for implementing the 2015 Paris Agreement to combat climate change.<\/p>\n\n<div id=\"attachment_23790\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 406px; text-align: justify;\">\n\n<figure id=\"attachment_7966\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7966\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7966\" src=\"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/HHDL-letter-cop24-497x700.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"634\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7966\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/em> <em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A letter sent by the Dalai Lama to the global climate summit<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Climate crisis in Tibet<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now 83, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.savetibet.org\/resources\/all-about-tibet\/his-holiness-the-dalai-lama\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Dalai Lama<\/a> has long been devoted to protecting the environment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In his message to COP24, he said this devotion began during his upbringing in Tibet, an area of immense biodiversity and natural wonders.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAs someone born in Tibet, the rooftop of the world, where Asia\u2019s great rivers rise and the world\u2019s highest peaks are to be found, I have loved nature since my childhood,\u201d the Dalai Lama wrote.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Unfortunately, since China conquered Tibet and forced the Dalai Lama into exile in 1959, Tibet\u2019s native splendors have been devastated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As a direct result of China\u2019s continued occupation, Tibet is now warming twice as fast as the rest of the world. Its enormous glaciers are quickly melting, and China\u2019s policies\u2014including its damming and mining projects, bottled water production and forced settlement of nomads\u2014have helped cause landslides, floods, earthquakes and other disasters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Dalai Lama\u2019s environmental leadership<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Given Tibet\u2019s importance as a source of water and biodiversity, the climate crisis taking place there affects the entire world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In his message to the conference, the Dalai Lama said climate change is a problem for all of humankind.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWhen we see photographs of the earth from space, we see no boundaries between us, just this one blue planet,\u201d the Dalai Lama wrote. \u201cThis is no longer a time to think only of \u2018my nation\u2019 or \u2018our continent\u2019 alone. There is a real need for a greater sense of global responsibility based on a sense of the oneness of humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Need for Tibetan autonomy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the case of Tibet, that responsibility could be fulfilled by pressuring the Chinese government to grant the Tibetan people autonomy over their land.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Dalai Lama is committed to environmentalism. In addition to articles on the subject, he told International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) Chairman Richard Gere \u2013 during ICT\u2019s 30th anniversary celebration earlier this year \u2013 that the environment was his \u201cmain concern\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe Dalai Lama\u2019s message to COP24 shows what a true leader he is on the issue of climate change,\u201d ICT President Matteo Mecacci said. \u201cIn order to save the world\u2019s environment, the international community must step forward to help the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan people regain their autonomy in Tibet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dalailama.com\/news\/2018\/his-holiness-the-dalai-lamas-message-to-delegates-to-the-cop24-un-climate-conference\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the Dalai Lama\u2019s letter to the COP24 Climate Conference.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a native of one of the world\u2019s most beautiful and endangered landscapes, the Dalai Lama has sent his prayers and advice to the COP24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categorie":[666],"news_tag":[675],"class_list":["post-12190","nieuws","type-nieuws","status-publish","hentry","categorie-newsinternational-political-news","news_tag-environment"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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