During the 2008 Tibetan unrest , Tutu marched in a pro-Tibet demonstration in San Francisco ; there , he called on heads of states to boycott the 2008 Summer Olympics opening ceremony in Beijing " for the sake of the beautiful people of Tibet " . Tutu invited the Tibetan Buddhist leader , the 14th Dalai Lama , to attend his 80th birthday in October 2011 , although the South African government did not grant him entry ; observers suggested that they had not given permission so as not to offend China , a major trading partner . In 2009 , Tutu assisted in the establishing of the Solomon Islands ' Truth and Reconciliation Commission , modelled after the South African body of the same name . He also attended the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen , and has publicly called for fossil fuel divestment , comparing it to disinvestment from apartheid-era South Africa
2008 Summer Olympics opening ceremony
2008 Summer Olympics opening ceremony
Desmond Tutu