From the leadership of Pope Francis, to statements from the Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and the world's foremost leading Muslim scholars in the Islamic Declaration on Climate Change, an outpouring of unprecedented unity occurred.
The leaders agreed that they would work at Copenhagen toward an interim political declaration on climate change that stopped short of a binding international treaty.
The grand mufti's of Lebanon and Uganda endorsed the Islamic declaration on climate change, along with prominent Islamic scholars and teachers from 20 countries, at a symposium in Istanbul.
He is due spend much of the day with Xi with the pair expected to make a high- profile joint declaration on climate change in which the US and China will announce plans to formally ratify the Paris climate agreement.
Their host, President Christopher Loeak, has been drumming up support for a "Majuro declaration" on climate change.
On Sept. 5, we adopted the Majuro Declaration for Climate Leadership, which outlines the ambitious targets of our island states to accelerate their transition to low-carbon economies.
The Majuro declaration for Climate Leadership is surprisingly strong considering these types of documents are usually intent on satisfying the least ambitious parties -- Australia and New Zealand, in this case.
Meanwhile, a scientist who managed the EPA's climate change website wrote this week that the agency's decision to shut down that site "signifies a declaration of war on climate science by EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt".
For example, at the time of the next COP, in Cancun in 2010, I was working with an international coalition of local governments working on sustainability, which coordinated a global mayoral declaration of action on climate change.
"That agreement is both a symbolic declaration of global cooperation on climate change as well a practical guide for growing our economies in a responsible and sustainable way," he told the press conference.
