Overview

Recognizing that business leaders are well positioned to promote receptivity to climate change messages among certain religious constituencies, create new opportunities for dialogue on climate change between business and religious leaders and communities.

Participants | Objectives | Related Initiatives

Objective

  • Vary the format: private and public.

Related Initiatives

  • Apollo alliance - The Apollo Alliance provides a message of optimism and hope, framed around rejuvenating our nation’s economy by creating the next generation of American industrial jobs and treating clean energy as an economic and security mandate to rebuild America. America needs to hope again, to dream again, to think big, and to be called to the best of our potential by tapping the optimism and can-do spirit that is embedded in our nation’s history.
  • Global Roundtable on Climate Change - Includes business and religious leaders, as well as non-US participants. Its compass does not include media, journalism, entertainment. For three years, it has held a twice-yearly conference of 150 high-level critical stakeholders. Conference presentations can be downloaded from its website in print, video, and Powerpoint formats.
  • Global Warming Working Group: Interfaith Centre on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR)
    The ICCR is a thirty-year-old international coalition of 275 faith-based institutional investors including denominations, religious communities, pension funds, healthcare corporations, foundations and dioceses with combined portfolios worth an estimated $100 billion. ICCR’s Global Warming Working Group’s mission is to educate companies about the environmental and economic threats posed by the emissions of greenhouse gases from their products and operations, and to increase shareholder value by urging companies to proactively address the global warming challenge. This Web site contains links to many resources on actions individuals and companies can take to reduce their climate changing impacts.”
  • Interfaith Council for Environmental Stewardship (ICES) - The ICES is a coalition of like-minded individuals and organizations dedicated to demonstrating widespread support for traditional principles of stewardship. Through the Cornwall Declaration campaign, ICES is building a network of religious, academic and community leaders who can offer sound theological, scientific and economic perspectives on these issues. This Web site is home for the “Cornwall Declaration on Environmental Stewardship” (also linked below). The site also links to three scholarly monographs entitled “Environmental Stewardship in the Judeo-Christian Tradition,” which offer unique Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant perspectives on climate change, and it provides a lengthy list of links to other theological, scientific, and economic resources on the environment.”

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