Buddhists unite on climate change

(The Christian Science Monitor) The Dalai Lama and 14 other leaders representing roughly 1 billion Buddhists signed a statement expressing support for the Paris climate talks at the end of November.

Some observers believe this is the first time so many Buddhist leaders have expressed a united opinion. The signers themselves—from Japan, Mongolia, France, the United States, Vietnam, and other nations—call their climate statement an unprecedented show of Buddhist unity, according to the Huffington Post.

“We are at a crucial crossroads where our survival and that of other species is at stake as a result of our actions,” the leaders wrote. “There is still time to slow the pace of climate change and limit its impacts, but to do so, the Paris summit will need to put us on a path to phase out fossil fuels.”