- Message of His Holiness Pope Francis for the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, 2020
- “Breath to the People: Sacred Air and Toxic Pollution,” A report prepared for the United Church of Christ by the Environmental Integrity Project, 2020
- A Bishops’ Letter about the Climate (revised), Church of Sweden, 2020. See the original 2014 letter.
- “Kairos for Creation: Confessing Hope for the Earth — The Wuppertal Call,” World Council of Churches, 2019
- “Let Justice Roll Down – Declaring Support for The Green New Deal and Affirming the Intersectionality of Climate Justice with All Justice Issues,”
United Church of Christ, 2019 - “Christian Ethics, Climate Emergency and Nonviolent Direct Action” Statement, Ethicists Without Borders, 2019
- Bishops Statement on Climate Change: Embracing Laudato Si’, 2019
- “Catholic Principles and Environmental Policy,” Washington State’s Bishops, 2018
- Message of His All Holiness, Patriarch Bartholomew, for the Day of Prayer for the Protection of the Environment, 2018
- Message by His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to the United Nations COP 24, Poland, 2018
- Christian Reformed Church Creation Care Statement (a summary drawn from the synod statements from 2008, 2010, 2012, 2017)
- “The Earth Is the Lord’s, Not Ours To Wreck – Imperatives for a New Moral Era,” UCC Synod resolution, 2017
- Kanyakumary Declaration, National Workshop on “Sustainable Values for a Green Church,” Church of South India Department of Ecological Concerns, 2017
- Lenten Call for “Carbon Fast,“ Church of South India, 2017
- 17th Asia-Oceania Meeting of Religious Final Statement, Conference theme: “A Call for Global Ecological Conversion,” Myanmar, 2017
- Final Statement of the Workshop on the Human Right to Water, Pontifical Academy of Sciences, 2017
- Pope Francis and Patriarch Bartholomew Joint Message on the World Day of Prayer for Creation, 2017
- Our Moral Opportunity on Climate Change, Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of the Church of England, New York Times, 2017
- “Manifesto on an Ecological Reformation of all Christian Traditions,” Volos Academy Consultation on Eco-Theology, Climate Justice, and Food Security, 2016
- “Comprehensiveness and the Middle Way: Anglican Perspectives on Religion and Ecology,” by The Most Reverend Dr. Katharine Jefferts Schori, Presiding Bishop, The Episcopal Church, 2015
- Laudato Si’–On Care for our Common Home, Encyclical of Pope Francis, 2015
- The world is our host: A call to urgent action for climate justice, Anglican Communion, South Africa, Good Friday 2015
- Black Church Climate Change Statement, 2015
- LAUDATO SI’: Presentation in the ECOSOC Chamber, Cardinal Peter K. A. Turkson, President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, 2015
- Remarks on Laudato Si’ to Child-Focused Agencies, Cardinal Peter K. A. Turkson, President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, 2015
- “Climate Change and the Common Good: A Statement of the Problem and the Demand for Transformative Solutions,” Pontifical Academy of Sciences & Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, 2015
- Declaration of Religious Leaders, Political Leaders, Business Leaders, Scientists and Development Practitioners, Pontifical Academy of Sciences, 2015
- Catholic Bishops’ statement in Lima on the road to Paris, 2014
- ELCA commitment: “Sustaining hope in the face of climate change,” Episcopal Church, Church of Sweden, Office of Public Affairs, 2013
- “Climate Revival” Statement, New England Regional Environmental Ministries, 2013
- A Spiritual Pathway To A Sustainable Environment: The Position of the Carmelite NGO on Climate Change, 2011
- “Healing a Broken World,” Promotio Iustitiae n° 106, Report of the Task Force on Jesuit Mission and Ecology, 2011
- A Pastoral Teaching from the House of Bishops of The Episcopal Church, Quito, Ecuador, 2011
- Climate Change Update #52, World Council of Churches, 2011
- “Caritas in Veritate (Charity in Truth),” Encyclical of Pope Benedict XVI, 2009
- A Quaker response to the crisis of climate change, 2009
- Statement on the Climate Change Emergency, World Council of Churches, 2019
- “Toxic Wastes and Race at Twenty 1987-2007,” United Church of Christ Justice & Witness Ministries, 2007
- Statement of Conscience on Global Warming/Climate Change, Unitarian Universalist Association, 2006
- Statement to the high-level segment of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP11 and COP/MOP1), 2005
- Environmental Justice for a Sustainable Future, United Methodist Church, 2004 (no longer available online)
- The Accra Confession: Covenanting for Justice in the Economy and the Earth, World Alliance of Reformed Churches, 2004
- “You love all that exists…all things are Yours, God, lover of life,” Pastoral Letter on the Christian Ecological Imperative, Social Affairs Commission, Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2003
- Global Climate Change: A Plea for Dialogue, Prudence and the Common Good, Catholic Climate Covenant of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2001
- His Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholemew: The Green Patriarch, Santa Barbara, 1997
- On the Care of Creation: An Evangelical Declaration on the Care of Creation, Evangelical Environmental Network, 1994
- “Caring for Creation: Vision, Hope, and Justice,” Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, 1993
- “Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States” United Church of Christ, Commission for Racial Justice, 1987
Header Image: From the “Sacred Celebration” segment of the film Renewal; Courtesy of Marty Ostrow