全球宗教領袖11月30日在瑞典烏普薩拉的宗教氣候變遷高峰會上，簽署了一份共同宣言，以全球人類福祇為出發點，希望能加速並大量減少二氧化碳的排放量。
基督教、佛教、道教、錫克教、回教、猶太教和美國原住民部落領袖在簽署的宣言中聲明：「我們都有仔細看護地球這塊家園的責任，也仔細考慮過科學家和政治領袖所擔憂的氣候危機，而現在我們將分擔他們的憂慮。」
宣言中也指出：「氣候變遷的情況已經相當危急，冰川和凍土正在融化，毀滅性的乾旱和洪水對人類和生態系統產生重大的衝擊，南方國家的情況則更加嚴重。地球是否能治癒呢？我們很有自信答案是肯定的。」
宗教領袖在聯合國年度氣候會議的前夕召開高峰會，並發表聯合宣言。2008年聯合國氣候會議將於12月1日至12日在波蘭波茲南舉行，預估將有8000人出席此項會議，會議的重點為推動未來氣候變遷協定的國際合作，做為2012年京都議定書到期後控管溫室氣體排放的依據。
這項協定預計在2009年12月聯合國哥本哈根氣候會議定案，並在2012年前交由各會員國進行簽署和批准。
科學家表示，限定氣溫僅能高於前工業時代提高攝氏2度時，是避免氣候變遷災難效應的重點，不過許多環保人士認為允許氣溫升高攝氏2度也會導致災難性的後果。全球保育組織世界自然基金會警告，攝氏2度的升溫將會引發乾旱，許多人將無法取得乾淨的水源，農作物枯萎以及大規模的飢荒。融化的冰帽和冰川會讓海平面上升，部分太平洋島嶼將無法再居住。
但烏普薩拉宣言被命名為「未來希望宣言」，歐盟執委會副主席沃斯特隆在宗教高峰會的演說中，也樂觀看待未來的氣候情況。
沃斯特隆也提醒其他與會民眾，以1991年排放量為標準，歐盟整體二氧化碳排放量到了2020年時將減少至少20%，如果其他已發展國家在新的國際協定下做出類似的承諾時，歐盟會將目標提高到30%。歐盟在2007年批准了上述目標，以及增加可再生能源資源和能源效能等等。
烏普薩拉宣言簽署人之一，同時也是亞利桑那州立大學猶太教研究計劃負責人Tirosh-Samuelson教授指出，烏普薩拉宣言將在2012年京都議定書到期後，建立一個全新的氣候變遷討論架構。
Faith leaders concluded their two-day Interfaith Summit on Climate Change in Uppsala on Saturday by signing a manifesto demanding quick and extensive reduction of carbon dioxide emissions in the wealthy parts of the world.
Christian, Buddhist, Daoist, Sikh, Muslim, Jewish and Native American leaders signed the declaration that states, "We all share the responsibility of being conscious caretakers of our home, planet Earth. We have reflected on the concerns of scientists and political leaders regarding the alarming climate crisis. We share their concerns."
“The situation is critical,” the manifesto states. "Glaciers and the permafrost are melting. Devastating drought and flooding strike people and ecosystems, especially in the South. Can planet Earth be healed? We are convinced that the answer is yes."
The faith leaders held their summit and issued their manifesto on the eve of the United Nations' annual climate conference, held this year in Poznan, Poland from December 1 through 12. The Poznan meeting, which is expected to draw around 8,000 participants, is focused on advancing international cooperation on a future climate change agreement to govern the emission of climate-warming greenhouse gases after the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012.
The future agreement is set to be finalized at the 2009 UN climate conference in Copenhagen, Denmark next December in time for countries to sign and ratify the document before 2012.
Limiting warming to 2° Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures is essential to averting the worst effects of climate change, scientists say. Yet many environmentalists believe allowing the temperature to rise even that much would be disastrous. The global conservation organization WWF warns that a 2° Celsius temperature rise would bring droughts that will leave many people without safe, clean water, and destroy crops, causing widespread famine. Melting ice caps and glaciers would raise sea levels, leaving some Pacific island nations uninhabitable.
But the Uppsala Manifesto is entitled "Hope for the Future," and European Vice President Margot Wallstrom also took a hopeful view of the situation in her address to the Interfaith Summit on Friday.
By the year 2020, the European Union as a whole should cut its emissions by at least 20 percent compared to 1990 levels - and we will increase that figure to 30 percent if other developed countries make a similar commitment under a new international agreement, Wallstrom reminded the interfaith participants. The EU agreed to these targets in 2007 along with increased renewable energy sources and energy efficiency.
The Uppsala Manifesto will create a new framework for discussion about climate change after the Kyoto agreement expires in 2012 said one of the signers, Professor Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, director of the Jewish Studies program at Arizona State University.
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