Florida’s Environmental Bill of Rights

Florida’s Environment is essential to our health and well-being and our State’s economic prosperity, and It is already the policy of Florida to conserve and protect its natural resources and scenic beauty in Article II, Section 7 of the Florida Constitution, and Our generation has the moral, spiritual and legal obligation to be good stewards of the environment for generations to come.

Rights:

1. Protect Florida's waters from environmental degradation so that generations to come can enjoy our rivers, lands, lakes, springs, bays and beaches.

2. Reduce Florida's carbon footprint so that by 2030 Florida does its part to meet the international standard of 30% greenhouse gas emissions reduction from the 2005 baseline based on the Paris Accord.

3. Support sustainable growth management policies that reduce urban sprawl, require concurrent infrastructure, emphasize non-automotive alternatives such as sidewalks, bikeways/paths, and public, mass and rail transit over building more and wider highways, and to continue the effective acquisition of environmentally sensitive lands.

4. Be responsible stewards of Florida's wildlife, coral reefs and fish so that they thrive and avoid extinction.

5. Support pro-environmental policies that help create better paying jobs; at a living wage.

6. Encourage Florida's use of clean sustainable energy, to reduce our State's dependence on fossil fuels and nuclear energy, and opposition to hydraulic fracturing in all its forms.

7. Oppose the concentrated location of polluting facilities especially in predominantly minority and low-income neighborhoods.

8. Encourage sustainability in our State's agricultural practices, water consumption, building codes and trash disposal.

9. Protect Florida's air from dangerous pollutants and protect the right of all Floridians to breathe clean air.

10. Recognize the interconnectedness of our environmental pledges and to be mutually supportive with the use of our resources.