International

• Biomimicry Principles
• CERES
  CERES
  CERES may refer to:* California Environmental Resources Evaluation System * Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies of the University of Toronto...
  
   Principles
  • Triple Bottom Line
    Triple bottom line
    The triple bottom line captures an expanded spectrum of values and criteria for measuring organizational success: economic, ecological, and social...
    
     principles
• Cradle to Cradle Design
• Deep Ecology's basic principles
• Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Principles
• Global Sullivan Principles of Social Responsibility
• Holistic Management Model
• International Chamber of Commerce
  International Chamber of Commerce
  The International Chamber of Commerce is the largest, most representative business organization in the world. Its hundreds of thousands of member companies in over 130 countries have interests spanning every sector of private enterprise....
  
   (ICC) Business Charter
• International Council of Local Environmental Initiatives
  ICLEI
  ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability, founded in 1990 as the 'International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives', is an international association of local governments and national and regional local government organizations that have made a commitment to sustainable development...
  
   (ICLEI)
• Marine Stewardship Council
  Marine Stewardship Council
  The Marine Stewardship Council is an independent non-profit organization with an ecolabel and fishery certification programme. Fisheries that are assessed and meet the standard can use the MSC blue ecolabel. The MSC mission is to 'reward sustainable fishing practices’...
  
   (MSC) Principles
• Natural capitalism
  Natural capitalism
  Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution is a 1999 book co-authored by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins and Hunter Lovins. It has been translated into a dozen languages and was the subject of a Harvard Business Review summary....
  
   Principles
• Permaculture Principles
  Permaculture
  Permaculture is an approach to designing human settlements and agricultural systems that is modeled on the relationships found in nature. It is based on the ecology of how things interrelate rather than on the strictly biological concerns that form the foundation of modern agriculture...
  
  
• The Bellagio Principles for Assessment
• The Code of Sustainable Winegrowing Practices (SWP)
• The Earth Charter
  Earth Charter
  The Earth Charter is an international declaration of fundamental values and principles considered useful by its supporters for building a just, sustainable, and peaceful global society in the 21st century...
  
  
• The Equator Principles
  Equator Principles
  The Equator Principles are a voluntary set of standards for determining, assessing and managing social and environmental risk in project financing....
  
  
• The Hannover Principles
  Hannover Principles
  The Hannover Principles is a set of statements about designing buildings and objects with forethought about their environmental impact, their effect on the sustainability of growth, and their overall impact on society...
  
  
• The Melbourne Principles
  Melbourne Principles
  The "Melbourne Principles" for Sustainable Cities are ten short statements on how cities can become more sustainable. They were developed in Melbourne on 2 April 2002 during an international Charette, sponsored by the United Nations Environment Programme and the International Council for Local...
  
  
• The Natural Step
  The Natural Step
  The Natural Step is a non-profit organization founded in Sweden in 1989 by scientist Karl-Henrik Robèrt. Following publication of the Brundtland Report in 1987, Robèrt developed The Natural Step framework, setting out the system conditions for the sustainability of human activities on Earth;...
  
  
• The Precautionary principle
  Precautionary principle
  The precautionary principle or precautionary approach states that if an action or policy has a suspected risk of causing harm to the public or to the environment, in the absence of scientific consensus that the action or policy is harmful, the burden of proof that it is not harmful falls on those...
  
  
• The Sanborn Principles
• The Todds' Principles of Ecological Design
• United Nations Global Compact

National

• American Petroleum Institute
  American Petroleum Institute
  The American Petroleum Institute, commonly referred to as API, is the largest U.S trade association for the oil and natural gas industry...
  
   (API) Environmental, Health and Safety Principles
• Asilomar Declaration for Sustainable Agriculture
• Charter of Rights and Responsibilities for the Environment
• Environmental Charter (National Ski Areas Association)
• National Park Service
  National Park Service
  The National Park Service is the U.S. federal agency that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations...
  
  's Guiding Principles
• Netherlands National Environmental Policy Plan (NEPP)
• Protected Harvest
  Protected Harvest
  Protected Harvest is an American non-profit organization heaquartered in Soquel, California that certifies sustainbly grown crops. The goal of the organization is to provide a standard measurement of what constitutes a sustainable product and use it to assure retailers and consumers that they are...
  
  Standards
• The Houston Principles