Launch: June 19-21, 2017 in Oslo, Norway
June 19: Nobel Peace Centre, Oslo, Norway
June 20-21: Lysebu Hotel, Oslo, Norway
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News coverage:
“King Of Norway To Host A Meeting Of Religious And Indigenous Leaders On Climate Change”
By Antonia Blumberg
Huffington Post
June 19, 2017
“Religious leaders mobilize to protect indigenous people and forests”
By Willie Shubert
Mongabay
May 2, 2018
“Keeping faith in forests”
By Frances Seymour
Thomson Reuters Foundation
July 25, 2017
“YDS religion-ecology scholar speaking at international rainforest conference”
Yale Divinity School
June 21, 2017
“Interfaith Rainforest Initiative in Oslo Photos and Images”
European Pressphoto Agency
June 19, 2017
“Religious leaders join interfaith rainforest initiative in Oslo today”
World Council of Churches
June 19, 2017
“Europe bishop represents Anglicans, Episcopalians at launch of Interfaith Rainforest Initiative in Norway”
Episcopal News Service
June 19, 2017
“Religious and indigenous leaders seek to save rainforests”
Josephine McKenna, Religion News Service
National Catholic Reporter
June 19, 2017
“Religious and indigenous leaders urge better protection of forests”
By Alister Doyle
Reuters
June 19, 2017
“Global religious and indigenous leaders warn against deforestation”
By Alister Doyle, Reuters
The Christian Science Monitor
June 19, 2017
“Holy smoke: saving the rainforests”
The Economist
June 19, 2017
“Religious, Indigenous Leaders Demand End to Tropical Rainforest Deforestation”
By Matti Huuhtanen
NBC Bay Area
June 19, 2017
“World Faith Leaders to Protect Global Deforestation”
Regional Interfaith Network
June 17, 2017
“Unprecedented Meeting of World Faith Leaders to Take on Global Deforestation”
Parliament of the World’s Religions
June 14, 2017