On the Road to Balance
September 2, 2025
I recently traveled to Brazil to take part in a number of events and meetings related to the project I am working on: the Global Ethical Stocktake (GES). One thing I noticed
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A Message from Karenna Gore
January 24, 2025
Image: August 13, 2018 in Belews Creek, North Carolina, standing with communities suffering lethal effects of coal ash pollution. Dear CEE Community, As this is our first newsletter of 2025,
Karenna Gore: “Faiths Respond to Stockholm+50”
March 6, 2022
I was grateful for the opportunity to speak at a dialogue, “Faiths Respond to Stockholm+50,” organized by Faith for Earth Initiative of the United Nations Environment Programme on March 4,
The Metaphysics of COP26: A Brief Reflection
November 23, 2021
“Power must be challenged by power,” wrote Reinhold Niebuhr in “Moral Man and Immoral Society,” and so it felt during the COP26 gathering in Glasgow. There were the representatives of the
Remarks by Karenna Gore on the Global Biodiversity Framework
September 8, 2021
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources World Conservation Congress Tuesday, September 7, 2021 Faith communities are calling on governments to strengthen the Global Biodiversity Framework. For too
Some Thoughts on Inauguration Day 2021
January 20, 2021
Like so many others, I have deep and mixed emotions on this Inauguration Day. This awful chapter is coming to a close and there is a lot to celebrate about
The UN Secretary-General — Remarks for the ONE PLANET SUMMIT
January 11, 2021
THE UN SECRETARY-GENERAL — REMARKS FOR THE ONE PLANET SUMMIT 11 January 2021 [All English version] Dear friends, 2021 must be the year to reconcile humanity
‘Forging an Earth Ethic’ – Video: Karenna Gore hosted by Charlemont Forum
July 13, 2020
Karenna Gore Director, Center for Earth Ethics Union Theological Seminary Forging an Earth Ethic in a Time of Crisis Hosted by Charlemont Forum of the Charlemont Federated Church – Affiliated with
Ethical Call to Action on Climate Policy by Karenna Gore
July 2, 2020
Ethics is simply about right and wrong and as a field of thought, it is most powerful when a widely held, deep sense of right and wrong is out of
World Environment Day 2020 – Karenna Gore
June 5, 2020
Today is World Environment Day. Our nation is going through a painful reckoning with systemic racism and worsening economic inequity, so the “environment” can seem to be a lesser concern.