Q: In this task, you're given a pair of sentences, sentence 1 and sentence 2. Your job is to write a single word that describes the genre that the two sentences belong to, such as face-to-face, government, letters, 9/11, slate, telephone, travel, verbatim, oup, fiction.
Sentence 1: Last October, more than 1,000 religious leaders from various faiths gathered with scholars at Harvard University for a conference on environmentalism . The Los Angeles Times described the conference as the most visible manifestation of a rapprochement between religion and environmentalism. Sentence 2: 1,000 religious leaders spoke out against climate change.
A:
slate