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United Nations Environment Programme

Faith and Nature Action

Inspiring ecological reflection to halt nature and biodiversity loss

Nature is a unifying factor held sacred and offers a common thread that speaks to the role of humanity and its relationship across all religions and spiritualities.

Discover Faith Leaders' commitment to #GenerationRestoration with messages of support by His Holiness Pope Francis and by His Eminence Ahmed el-Tayeb, Grand Imam of al-Azhar during the launch of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030).

Once more in 2024, Faith Leaders renew their calls of support for Our Land. Our Future. in commemoration of World Environment Day.

 

A man standing in a forest

Faith groups help to save disappearing forests

Eric Bagenzi is on a mission to change the world – one tree at a time.

As a light breeze drifts through the mild afternoon air in early December 2022, the 33-year-old surveys a field in front of him, clipboard in hand. The landscape, located some 45km outside the Rwandan capital, Kigali, is a patchwork of grass, soil and pebble.

A few trees populate the field, some still young and diminutive,…

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Only 12 per cent of cities have air quality measures that meet WHO standards.

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