The challenges of sustainable development are more than technical or political—they are also moral, calling on us to examine who we are as human beings, and who we want to be going forward.
These videos are from the SDG Academy course Ethics in Action, first launched in 2019 and featuring leaders from some of the world's major religious traditions, philosophers, scholars, and business leaders.
These videos are from the SDG Academy course Ethics in Action, first launched in 2019 and featuring leaders from some of the world's major religious traditions, philosophers, scholars, and business leaders.
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This chapter looks at different dimensions of corporate social responsibility and stresses that the ethical responsibility of business must be a core component of…
The Moral Basis for Business Activity
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In this chapter, William Vendley finds the points of consensus between religious traditions, and shows how religious communities are well-positioned in terms of both…
Virtue Ethics as a Multi-Religious Consensus
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In this chapter, Professor Jeffrey Sachs gives an overview of health, education, and labor rights, tying each one to the overall goals of sustainable development. This…
The Rights to Health, Education, and Decent Work
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In this chapter, Grand-father T8aminik (Dominique) Rankin and Grand-mother Marie-Josée Tardif discuss ethics and the connections between people and the Earth in…
Virtue Ethics: An Indigenous Perspective
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Good governance is a tenet of development, and when governments are corrupt, economic development and individual sense of well-being within the government's reach…
Corruption and Global Business
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During times of unrest and uncertainty, how can faith and ethics help our communities take action towards a brighter future? This webinar, held on June 30, 2020,…
Ethics for Troubled Times
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In this chapter, Professor Jeffrey Sachs tackles SDG1, ending extreme poverty, looking at the resources available and how a lack of distribution leads towards vast…
The Challenge of Global Poverty
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This chapter introduces the Ethics in Action Initiative as a forum through which religious leaders and scholars from traditions around the world came together to find…
Sustainable Development and the Need for Ethics…
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All of our aspirations for sustainable development depend on good governance. Good governance is vital so that government provides the public investments and the public…
Corruption and Politics Today
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This case study focuses on William Vendley's organization, Religions for Peace, as an illustration of the conversations and movements happening in religious…
Religions for Peace
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"Laudato Si' inspired all of us with its call for integral human development. And that means that we have to look at human development with a holistic…
The Rights of Indigenous Populations
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This chapter looks at the ethical contradictions with human-induced climate change through the lens of hinduism, stressing the importance of non-violence in Hinduism. …
A Hindu Approach to Environmental Care
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The topic of this video is the practical and moral flaws of the global economy. Learn about the good, the bad, and the ugly of how our global economy is creating new…
The Moral and Practical Limits of Global…
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"Religion--the sacred the notion of a deep reality that guides our lives--is an embedded reality. It affects how we think about sexuality and family and commerce…
Religion and Peacebuilding
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Confucian ethics is a tradition that can be used by people from different religious traditions in China. It is a tradition shared by people who may engage in different…
Gender Equality: A Confucian Perspective
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Jeffrey Sachs outlines 50 years of sustainable development history and its alignment with papal encyclicals regarding social challenges, culminating with Laudato…
The History of Sustainable Development and the…
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