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Ethics in Action for Sustainable Development

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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2022

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This book presents an in-depth and deeply engaged conversation among interfaith religious leaders and interdisciplinary scholars and practitioners in pursuit of an ethical consensus that could ground sustainable development efforts.

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Jeffrey D. Sachs is University Professor and director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University as well as president of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network, and he has been an advisor to three UN secretaries-general.

Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo is a Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Vescovio, Italy, and former chancellor of the Pontifical Academies of Sciences and Social Sciences.

Owen Flanagan is James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and codirector of the Center for Comparative Philosophy at Duke University.

William Vendley is secretary general emeritus of Religions for Peace International and vice president and senior advisor for religion at the Fetzer Institute.

Anthony Annett is a Gabelli Fellow at Fordham University and senior adviser at the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network.

Jesse Thorson is program manager at the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University’s Earth Institute.

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Philip J. Ivanhoe, author of Oneness: East Asian Conceptions of Virtue, Happiness, and How We Are All Connected:
I came away from this book with a lot of new information and ideas but also a sense of relief: maybe it isn't too late; maybe humanity and much of the other life on the planet is not irrevocably lost and without hope. Ethics in Action for Sustainable Development brings together a broad coalition of authors from disparate disciplines and shows how all of their work is connected to the pressing need to address environmental degradation.

Ban Ki-moon, former secretary-general of the United Nations:
In Ethics in Action for Sustainable Development, religious leaders of many faiths and scholars of many disciplines address the ethics of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Their message is timely and hopeful: the world’s great religious and ethical traditions share the common commitment to end poverty, assure social justice, and achieve environmental sustainability. The world can indeed come together to build the Future We Want.

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    Frontmatter

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    CONTENTS

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    FOREWORD

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    INTRODUCTION: JEFFREY D. SACHS AND OWEN FLANAGAN

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  • PART I ADVANCING THE COMMON GOOD Shared Virtues and Visions of Well-Being
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    CHAPTER 1 THE VISION AND VALUES OF THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

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    Jeffrey D. Sachs
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    CHAPTER 2 A SOCIAL MOVEMENT TO MAKE THE LAST FIRST

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    Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo
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    CHAPTER 3 VIRTUES ACROSS TRADITIONS Common Ground?

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    Owen Flanagan
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    CHAPTER 4 SECULAR ETHICS, MORAL CAPITAL, AND THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

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    Owen Flanagan
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    CHAPTER 5 THE CURRENT RESURGENCE OF INTEREST IN THE CIVIL ECONOMY PARADIGM

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    Stefano Zamagni
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  • PART II RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS AND THE COMMON GOOD
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    CHAPTER 6 THE CONFUCIAN CONCEPTION OF THE COMMON GOOD IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA

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    CHAPTER 7 HINDUISM “Consider the common good in all actions”

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    Anantanand Rambachan
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    CHAPTER 8 JUDAISM AND THE COMMON GOOD

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    David Rosen
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    CHAPTER 9 BUDDHISM AND THE COMMON GOOD

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    Reverend Kyoichi Sugino
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    CHAPTER 10 GREEK ORTHODOXY AND THE COMMON GOOD

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    John D. Zizioulas
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    CHAPTER 11 CATHOLICISM AND THE COMMON GOOD

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    Daniel G. Groody
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    CHAPTER 12 ISLAM AND THE COMMON GOOD

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    Hamza Yusuf
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  • PART III AN ETHICAL CONSENSUS ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Poverty
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    ETHICS IN ACTION TO END POVERTY Consensus Statement

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    CHAPTER 13 THE CHALLENGE OF GLOBAL POVERTY

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    Jeffrey D. Sachs
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    CHAPTER 14 ETHICAL ACTIONS TO END POVERTY

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    Anthony Annett
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    CHAPTER 15 COMMUNITY-BASED POVERTY REDUCTION

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    Jennifer Gross
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    CHAPTER 16 JUDAISM AND POVERTY

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  • PART IV AN ETHICAL CONSENSUS ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Peace
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    ETHICS IN ACTION FOR SUSTAINABLE AND INTEGRAL DEVELOPMENT ON PEACE Consensus Statement

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    CHAPTER 17 ON PEACE AND A MORAL FRAMEWORK FOR STATECRAFT

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    Jeffrey D. Sachs
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    CHAPTER 18 ADVANCING SHARED WELL-BEING AS A MULTIRELIGIOUS VISION OF POSITIVE PEACE

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    William F. Vendley
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    CHAPTER 19 BUILDING PEACE Strategies, Resources, and Religions

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    R. Scott Appleby
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  • PART V AN ETHICAL CONSENSUS ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Migration
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    ETHICS IN ACTION Statement on Migration

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    CHAPTER 20 THE DRIVERS OF MIGRATION

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    Jeffrey D. Sachs
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    CHAPTER 21 A MUSLIM PERSPECTIVE ON REFUGEES

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    Hamza Yusuf
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    CHAPTER 22 MIGRATION AND REFUGEES A Christian Perspective

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    Daniel G. Groody
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  • PART VI AN ETHICAL CONSENSUS ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Businesses as Agents of Sustainable Development
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    ETHICS IN ACTION Businesses as Agents of Sustainable Development

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    CHAPTER 23 TOWARD A LAUDATO SI’ COHERENT CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY MANAGEMENT

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    Klaus M. Leisinger
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    CHAPTER 24 SUSTAINABLE INVESTMENT AND ETHICS IN ACTION

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    Kerry Kennedy
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    CHAPTER 25 THE CASE FOR BUSINESS IN ACHIEVING THE SDGs

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    Jacqueline Corbelli
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  • PART VII AN ETHICAL CONSENSUS ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Education
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    DECLARATION OF THE ETHICS IN ACTION MEETING ON EDUCATION

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    CHAPTER 26 THE CHALLENGE OF EDUCATION

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    Jeffrey D. Sachs
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    CHAPTER 27 WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO MEET THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL FOR EDUCATION?

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    Radhika Iyengar
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    CHAPTER 28 “ONLY CONNECT” Neuroscience, Technology, and Global Literacy

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    Maryanne Wolf
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  • PART VIII AN ETHICAL CONSENSUS ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Climate Justice
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    ETHICS IN ACTION Climate Justice

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    CHAPTER 29 CLIMATE DISRUPTION A Personal Journey Into the Ethical and Moral Issues

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    Veerabhadran Ramanathan
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    CHAPTER 30 THE RELIGIOUS CASE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL CARE

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    Emmanuel Adamakis
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    CHAPTER 31 HEALTH JUSTICE IS CLIMATE JUSTICE

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    Ted Smith and Christina Lee Brown
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    CHAPTER 32 ENVIRONMENTAL INJUSTICE How Treaties Undermine the Right to a Healthy Environment

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    Lisa Sachs, Ella Merrill and Lise Johnson
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    CHAPTER 33 ETHICS IN ACTION AND DIVESTMENT

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    Erin Lothes
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  • PART IX AN ETHICAL CONSENSUS ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Modern Slavery, Human Trafficking, and Access to Justice for the Poor and Vulnerable
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    ETHICS IN ACTION ON MODERN SLAVERY, HUMAN TRAFFICKING, AND ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOR THE POOR AND VULNERABLE

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    CHAPTER 34 ACTUALIZING JUSTICE FOR THE POOR

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    Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo
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    CHAPTER 35 MULTIRELIGIOUS ACTION AGAINST MODERN SLAVERY AND TRAFFICKING

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    William F. Vendley
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    CHAPTER 36 VIOLENCE AGAINST THE POOR AND ETHICS IN ACTION

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    Sharon Cohn Wu
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  • PART X AN ETHICAL CONSENSUS ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Indigenous Peoples
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    DECLARATION BY ETHICS IN ACTION ON THE SDGS AND THE MAGISTERIUM OF POPE FRANCIS FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES

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    CHAPTER 37 CARE OF THE EARTH, CARE OF THE SOUL Indigenous Communities and Inner Climate Change

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    Dominique Rankin, Marie-Josée Tardif and Daniel G. Groody
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    CHAPTER 38 PRACTICAL APPROACHES TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES AND TRADITIONAL POPULATIONS OF THE AMAZON

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    Virgilio Viana
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  • PART XI AN ETHICAL CONSENSUS ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Corruption
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    ETHICS IN ACTION ON CORRUPTION Consensus Statement

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    CHAPTER 39 UNDERSTANDING AND COMBATTING CORRUPTION

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    Sean Hagan
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    CHAPTER 40 THE ROLE OF INSTITUTIONS IN FIGHTING CORRUPTION

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    Jermyn Brooks
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  • PART XII AN ETHICAL CONSENSUS ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT The Future of Work
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    ETHICS IN ACTION ON THE FUTURE OF WORK

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    CHAPTER 41 UNIONS AND THE FUTURE OF WORK

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    Sharan Burrow
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    CHAPTER 42 THE COMING AI REVOLUTION Is This Time Different?

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    Carl Benedikt Frey
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    CHAPTER 43 SLOW BUT SURE Cooperatives and Integral Ecology

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    Nathan Schneider
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    CHAPTER 44 THE END OF WORK AS WE KNOW IT A Muslim Perspective

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    Hamza Yusuf
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    CONCLUSION Toward a Moral Economy

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    Anthony Annett and Jesse Thorson
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    CONTRIBUTORS

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    INDEX

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https://doi.org/10.7312/sach20286
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Keywords for this book
sustainable development; sustainability; climate change; comparative religion; religious studies; ethics; poverty; environmental justice; the future of work; Sustainable Development Goals; Religions for Peace; Ethics in Action; Pope Francis
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