By Ecumenical News International Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus and author Peter Matthiessen are among those who have said they will attend an interfaith climate summit being organized by the (Lutheran) Church of Sweden in Uppsala in November 2008. The Uppsala gathering is to take place immediately before a United Nations climate change conference in Poland, and aims to deliver a strong ethical and religious message to the political leaders at the UN meeting. "The future of our planet depends on its climate, and we all need to take responsibility for getting global warming under control," said archbishop of Sweden Anders Wejryd in a statement released at the end of May that announced the participation of Yunus and Matthiessen. Yunus, from Bangladesh, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for his work in pioneering...
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