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ARC-UN: Faiths' Long Term Commitments for a Living Planet
Latest list of 31 long term faith commitments.
List of "Aspects" of the long term plans.
In November 2009, at Windsor Castle, ARC and the UNDP joined with 31 faith traditions to launch and celebrate their Long Term Commitments for a Living Planet. The meeting was hosted by HRH The Prince Philip and attended by HE The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, in advance of the Copenhagen summit on Climate Change. Follow this link to learn more about how your community can, over the next seven years or so, make an action plan to protect the living planet.
Links
Latest Guidelines to the Long Term Commitments.
ARC-UNDP Windsor Event website.
Frequently Asked Questions.
Why faiths have the power to shape future generations.
"The world's faiths joined together in this cause - if viewed in terms of sheer numbers of people - could become the planet's largest civil society movement for change. With their unparalleled presence throughout the world, the world's religions could be the decisive force that helps top the scales in favor of a world of climate safety and justice for future generations... this event will be one for the history books," UNDP Assistant Secretary-General Olav Kjorven.
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"The key contribution the faiths can make to the environmental issues of today is to develop programmes based not on fear, guilt or apprehension but on doing what is right" A Muslim fisherman in Africa explains why he has stopped fishing with dynamite... because it is right to do so. |
"Those who would transform a nation or the world cannot do so by breeding and captaining discontent or by demonstrating reasonableness and desirability of the intended changes or by coercing people into a new way of life. They must know how to kindle and fan an extravagant hope."
Eric Hoeffer, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, New York, 1951, p 18.
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Vision and Strategy
ARC's vision is of people, through their beliefs, treading more gently upon the earth.
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Last updated: September 24, 2009 :
Latest news on the Long Term Commitments
A sample of some of the faith groups around the world that are creating Five, Seven, Eight and Nine Year Plans to protect the natural environment, through the UNDP-ARC framework. |
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December 7 2007:
UN and ARC launch programme with faiths on climate change
The UN has asked ARC to help launch an innovative programme for faiths to tackle climate change.
This is the first time the UN has involved the faiths at this scale. |
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