Protecting Our Common Climate System: Earth Governance for a Sustainable Future

Speakers: Executive Director of GreenFaith Fletcher Harper, President & CEO NGO Committee on Disarmament, Peace, and Security Bruce Knotts

November 18, 2024 10:15 - 10:30

A fireside discussion on religious, faith and values-based principles that relate to environmental governance required to protect the climate. These principles include protection of creation (the Earth’s global ecosystem), reciprocity/equity, justice/fairness, social responsibility and Guardianship/Earth Trusteeship.
With global temperature rise already causing wide-spread and devastating disasters, and with the tipping point for a global climate catastrophe imminent, it is evident that relying on national commitments in a competitive economic and political environment is not working. Humanity must reach beyond nationalism to build fit-for-purpose global governance for managing the Earth’s atmosphere - our common climate system. Such governance, if adopted, can ensure that existing climate commitments are fulfilled and are implemented collectively and effectively.
The discussion will include specific governance proposals that have been evaluated by the Climate Governance Commission, highlighted in Mobilizing an Earth Governance Alliance and promoted in Protecting Our Common Climate System: Earth Governance for a Sustainable Future, an interfaith appeal to COP29 which has been endorsed by over 200 religious, faith and values-based organizations and leaders from around the world.

Fletcher Harper

Executive Director of GreenFaith
Bruce Knotts

President & CEO NGO Committee on Disarmament, Peace, and Security