COP28: Sadhguru urges global leaders to promote soil conservation

Spiritual guru and environment activist Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, Founder, Save Soil Movement, urged global leaders to take up the issue of soil conservation during the COP28 in Dubai on Friday.

The spiritual guru from Tamil Nadu was among several luminaries who attended the inaugural sessions of the COP28, Dubai on Friday.

Several world leaders, including the Prime Minister of UK, Rishi Sunak, Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, President of the World Bank, Ajay Banga, President of France, Emmanuel Macron, Indonesian President Joko Widodo, UAE’s Minister of Climate Change and Environment HE Mariam Almheiri, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, were in attendance.

Addressing the gathering, Sadhguru asserted that religious and spiritual leaders should do their bit to influence people to take up conservation of the environment on a serious note.

“It doesn’t matter who you are, what you believe, or which heaven you will go to, all of us come from the same soil, we eat off the same soil, and when we die, we will go back to the same soil. Soil is the ultimate unifier! Faith leaders can play an instrumental role in influencing and inspiring people and policymakers to enact soil revitalization policies,” Sadhguru said in his inaugural address at the Faith Pavillion of COP28.