A chapter of a national movement to raise awareness of climate change and energy issues among religious groups has opened in Hawai'i and will hold a dedication ceremony from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Church of the Crossroads, 1212 University Ave.

The dedication program for Hawai'i Interfaith Power and Light includes speakers from a variety of religious traditions addressing climate change.

Chuck Burrows, one of Hawai'i's Interfaith Power and Light founders, said he hopes to bring religious and Hawaiian spiritual groups together to work in concert with secular environmental and political entities on the issues of global climate change and energy.

"As an island ecosystem, Hawai'i's archipelago will encounter the effects of climate change more profoundly than most continental states in America," Burrows said. "Hawai'i's unique multiculture and religious diversity hold in common from their faith perspective the caring for all of creation and each other as their sacred responsibility."