Results:

Two hundred forty-one people of faith signed the petition!

Thank you for making our voice heard!

This was the message that was sent by Interfaith Power and Light to the WCI meeting in San Diego on July 29th:

Global warming endangers the life-support systems for all creation and puts at risk the most vulnerable --those living in poverty, the elderly, those in ill health and children.

As the most pressing moral issue of our time, global warming calls for effective and immediate action. We thank the Partners of the Western Climate Initiative (WCI) for their strong leadership at the regional level in the absence of national action.

The Western Climate Initiative will create the potential for seven western states and two Canadian provinces to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions to scientifically-based targets while fostering the new energy economy of the 21st century. As people of faith, we urge you to embrace the following elements in finalizing the WCI framework:

1. Alleviate global warming-induced suffering for the world’s poor and the most vulnerable.

2. Ensure that states and provinces distribute carbon emission allowances and revenues in a fair and equitable manner

3. Designate a portion of allowances, or revenues from allowance auctions, to assist low-income people in adapting to WCI through intensive energy efficiency programs, transportation alternatives, and bill payment assistance.

4. Ensure that working people can transition to new green jobs, and that worker retraining is available for that purpose.

5. Ensure WCI’s scope includes transportation fuels in order to maintain the environmental integrity of WCI and to achieve the lowest cost economy-wide emissions reductions.