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Mission

The mission of the Earth Charter Initiative is to promote the transition to sustainable ways of living and a global society founded on a shared ethical framework that includes respect and care for the community of life, ecological integrity, universal human rights, respect for diversity, economic justice, democracy, and a culture of peace.

Climate Change

Climate change -- caused by humanity's emission of greenhouse gases -- has emerged as a global issue of the highest urgency. On this page, you will find some articles addressing climate change from an integrated ethical perspective, as framed by the Earth Charter. This page was initially developed in 2007 to stimulate a dialogue on these issues making the linkages with the Earth Charter.


To initiate this dialogue, two members of Earth Charter International Council -- Australian scientist Brendan Mackey of Australian National University, and Chinese lawyer Song Li of the World Bank -- have written in 2007 a report to the ECI Council entitled Winning the Struggle Against Global Warming. We invite you to read this paper and others that are related to this theme. 


Here you can download the following essays/documents:
 

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NEWS



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Watch an interesting video interview with Prof. Brendan Mackey on climate change, ethics and the Earth Charter!
Earth Charter youth partner Reto Juvenil Internacional co-organized a three day training on global citizenship and climate change for Costa Rican youth. The Earth Charter was presented to the participants as an ethical framework to approach the climate change.

The yearlong Earth Charter+10 celebrations begins this week with major events and the launch of the video - It starts with one - on 22 April, Earth Day.
The Earth Charter International Secretariat is pleased to announce the release of the Earth Charter Annual Report for 2009
Major EC gatherings will take place in Mexico to celebrate EC+10 in the Federal District and Guanajuato
Mr. Emmanuel Agyemang Badu of Ghana, the Earth Charter Youth Group Coordinator from ECYG The PIGOP, wrote an article on climate change and on the need to embrase the Earth Charter.
ECI is happy to announce the publication of a new book – The Tao of Liberation: Exploring the Ecology of Transformation.
Three members of Earth Charter Youth Group Climate Natural got an opportunity to participate in COP 15.
During COP 15 in Copenhagen, Green Cross International and Climate Change Task Force are organizing a side event, where Maurice Strong will be talking about the role of the Earth Charter as a framework for cooperative action in a climate change context.
Read Ruud Lubbers et all and Leonardo Boff excellent articles on Climate Change in light of the Copenhagen event
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