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Original definition: Assist populations and countries facing climate harms beyond their contribution or capacity to respond.

Original definition: Use honest, transparent, independent, and best-available scientific knowledge in climate policy and public communication.

Original definition: Act individually or with others to promote and protect universally recognized human rights through peaceful means.

Original definition: Prevent violence, threats, discrimination, pressure, surveillance, or punishment directed at legitimate rights advocacy.

Original definition: Protect access to information, documentation, observation, and communication concerning possible human-rights abuses.

Original definition: Allow people to identify failures, criticize public bodies, and propose improvements without arbitrary retaliation.

Original definition: Ensure prompt, impartial investigation and meaningful remedy when defenders face violence, threats, or unlawful interference.

Original definition: Allow people to organize, meet, communicate, obtain resources, and cooperate lawfully in defense of human rights.

Original definition: Recognize, document, conserve, and transmit monuments, sites, traditions, and other culturally significant inheritances.

Original definition: Safeguard ecosystems, geological formations, habitats, and natural sites of exceptional scientific, ecological, or aesthetic importance.

Original definition: Preserve cultural and natural heritage so future generations can know, use, interpret, and appreciate it.

Original definition: Provide scientific, technical, financial, and institutional cooperation when heritage preservation exceeds local capacity.

Original definition: Reject avoidable damage to cultural or natural heritage for profit, war, ideology, convenience, or political domination.

Original definition: Include communities, knowledge holders, and affected peoples in decisions about the preservation and interpretation of heritage.

Original definition: Offer speech when it is timely and likely to be useful rather than merely impulsive.

Original definition: Use speech that contributes to understanding, healing, moral growth, or legitimate protection.

Original definition: Let truthful speech be motivated by care rather than cruelty, revenge, or humiliation.

Original definition: Do not earn a living through practices that foreseeably cause serious harm, exploitation, or moral corruption.

Original definition: Regularly examine conduct, motives, habits, and consequences so harmful patterns are recognized early.

Original definition: Treat basic moral discipline as a necessary foundation for concentration, wisdom, and spiritual development.