Is anyone following the Islamic Climate Change [View all]

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Symposium and their declaration?

Interesting stuff: officials and activists from multiple Muslim countries got together in Istanbul recently and called for Islamic countries to phase out fossil fuel production by 2050, and for everyone to be good to the Earth in the name of religion.

I am all in favor.

It's just, I tend to look cynically for the political angle in such things, and I can't figure out what the angle is.

It's interesting that the represented countries were non-oily as best I can tell (for example: Uganda, Lebanon, Indonesia).

Are they trying to keep up with the Pope?
Are they hoping to shame or hamstring the Muslim oil powerhouses (but why would they want to?)
Is there a nascent Green movement inside Islam?
Is Erdogan trying hamhandedly to stamp out everyone's dark Gezi Park protest memories?

Thoughts, people?