An online list of Moral and Ethical Resources for the Interfaith Consortium for Ecological Civilization website, divided into general, UN and Religious, which speak to your point of many statements already made. No time or need to reinvent the wheel.
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We offer here a set of moral and ethical resources that can be brought to bear on environmental concerns, divided into three categories:
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General Resources
- Rio 2012: Enabling a Flourishing Earth
- Severn Suzuki Speaking at UN Earth Summit 1992 in Rio
- Earth Charter Initiative
- Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril
- Carl Safina: The View from Lazy Point
- Towards a Global Ethic
- Nobel Peace Laureate Dr. Wangari Maathai: Green Belt Movement
- Climate Ethics – The US Academy of Sciences’ Reports on Climate Change and the US Moral Climate Change Failure
- US Climate Ethics Statement
- Indigenous Environmental Network
- The World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth
- Mary Robinson Foundation: Climate Justice
- National (U.S.) Climate Ethics Campaign
- World Wildlife Fund: Sacred Earth – Religion and Conservation
UN Resources
- Earth and Faith: A Book of Reflection for Action
- 64th Annual DPI/NGO Conference Declaration, titled “The Chair’s Text“
- Voices of the Earth
- Earth Summit Agreements (UN Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro 1992)
Religious Resources
- Climate Change Ethics
- GreenFaith
- Earth Day Network – Earth Stewardship Resources for People of Faith
- Interfaith Power & Light
- The National Religious Partnership for Religion and Environment
- The Golden Rule
- Subverting Greed: Paul Knitter and Chandra Muzaffar
- Alliance of Religions and Conservation(ARC)
- ARC – Many Heavens, One Earth: Faith Commitments for a Living Planet Report 2009
- Episcopal Church Eco-Justice
- National Council of Churches of Christ Eco-Justice
- National Council of Churches of Christ Eco-Justice Partners and Other Faith Environmental Organizations
- United Religions Initiative: Environment-Our Work
- Common Declaration on Environmental Ethics: Common Declaration by Pope John Paul II
- God’s Earth is Sacred: An Open Letter to Church and Society in the United States
- The Assisi Declarations
- Declaration of the Four Sacred Things
- John Cobb Video
- Anchorage Statement by Indigenous Peoples’ Global Summit on Climate Change
- The Uppsala Interfaith Climate Manifesto 2008 – Faith Traditions Addressing Global Warming
- Valuing Spirituality in Development – A Baha’i Perspective
- Exploring Synergies Between Faith Values and Education for Sustainable Development
- Honor the Earth
- Evangelical Environmental Network
- Faith in Place