Most faith communities have released statements on Climate Change and the need to care for our common home. Please let us know if there are any additional statements you would like to see included by contacting us at contactus@vaipl.org.

Baha’i

Statements 

• The Universal House of Justice Statement on Climate Change 

Articles 

• Perspective | To Address Climate Change, Ensure Coherence Between Principle and Action (2019) 

Video

• Perspectives: One Common Homeland- Baha’is of the United States (2016)
• Baha’i Blogcast with Rainn Wilson – Ep 59: The Spirituality of Climate Change (2020)

 

Buddhist

Statements

• Buddhism _ Environmental Issues
• The Time to Act is Now – A Buddhist Declaration on Climate Change

Articles

• The Guardian– ‘Buddha would be green’: Dalai Lama calls for urgent climate action (2020) 
• Awakening in the Age of Climate Change
• A Buddhist Perspective on the Global Environmental Crisis: Poetics of the Wild 

Video and Podcasts 

• The Guardian– Dalai Lama says strong action on climate change is a human responsibility (2015)
• A Buddhist Monk’s International Journey To Combat Climate Change (2021) 
• Bhikkhu Bodhi talks “Four Noble Truths of the Climate Crisis” at White House (2015) 

Click 2 for Christian, Hindu, and Interfaith Climate Change Statements

Christian

• 17 Anglican Bishops across six continents issue urgent call for climate justice

• Baptist – A Southern Baptist Convention Resolutions On Global Warming

• Baptist – American Baptist Policy Statement on Ecology: An Ecological Situational Analysis

• Catholic – Study Guides

• Catholic – Social Teachings on Creation

• Catholic – U.S. Catholic Bishops’ Statement on Climate Change

• Catholic – Vatican on Climate Change

• Church of the Brethren – Statement on Global Climate Change

• Episcopal Church – House of Bishops Climate Statement

• Evangelical Lutheran Church of America – Caring for Creation: Vision, Hope, and Justice

• Greek Orthodox –
  Message of His All Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch DIMITRIOS I on the day of the protection of the Environment

• Mennonite – Creation Care Network

• Presbyterian Church USA – U.S. Energy Policy and Global Warming

• Quaker – Earthcare Mission Program

• United Church of Christ – A Resolution on Climate Change

• United Methodist Church – Church Statement on Climate Change

Hindu

• Hindu Declaration on Climate Change
• Hinduism and the Environment

Interfaith

• Interfaith Declaration on Climate Change (IDCC)

Jewish

Statement 

• Jewish Environmental and Energy Imperative

Video

• Lecture to examine the intersection of Judaism and climate change (2022) 

Muslim

Statement

• Islamic Declaration on Global Climate Change

Video & Podcasts 

• Sermon: Islam, Preservation and Global Warming – Mufti Menk 
• Podcast: This World as a Place of Worship with Ibrahim Abdul-Matin (2020)

Sikh

Statement 

• Sikh Faith Statement on the Environment

Videos

• EcoSikh’s “Sacred Forest” video released at COP26
• Our future – climate change and how it relates to Sikhi
• What does the Sikh tradition have to say about the environment?

Unitarian Universalist

Statement 

Unitarian Universalist – Threat of Global Warming/Climate Change

Video 

• UU Ministry for Earth “Hallelujah for the Earth” – Virtual Choir

Additional Statements

• Faith Traditions Creation Care Statements
• The (Yale) Forum on Religion and Ecology