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Jordanian organizations and individuals have actively participated in the Earth Charter Initiative. Important supporters are HRH Princess Basma Bint Talal (an Earth Charter Commissioner), The Jordanian Hashemite Fund for Human Development (JOHUD), and the Land and Human to Advocate Progress (LHAP).
 
In November 2001, JOHUD organized the Arab Regional Meeting on the Earth Charter, with Arab environmentalists from all sectors, which resulted in the endorsement of the Earth Charter by many groups and in the “Amman Declaration ”. Since then, JOHUD has been helping the Earth Charter Initiative in the translation of key Earth Charter Initiative documents into Arabic, and have also been raising awareness of the Earth Charter among educational institutions, and with local governments. All 99 municipalities in Jordan jointly endorsed the Earth Charter in 2002; this was the first step towards developing sustainable development plans for cities in Jordan.
 
Youth Groups have also been active in Jordan. In 2003, the Black Iris Earth Charter Youth Group Jordan was created, as part of a network of various Jordanian youth bodies to promote interreligious cooperation and dialogue. In 2005 as a result of Black Iris’s work the Earth Charter was recognized as one of the international reference documents by the Higher Council’s youth and environment division.
 
In 2003, during UNESCO’s 32nd General Conference, the Government of Jordan submitted a Draft Resolution for UNESCO’s recognition of the Earth Charter. The resolution was approved and UNESCO now recognizes the Earth Charter as an important ethical framework for sustainable development.

At the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development held in Johannesburg, the official representative of the Jordanian government, as part of the heads of states intervention stated: “As we strive through our collective efforts to reduce the disparities between countries, and enhance inclusiveness and equality, we would do well to draw on the ethical vision of the Earth Charter. It is a vision that seeks to inspire all peoples with a new sense of global interdependence and shared responsibility for the well being of the human family and the larger living world. In our struggle to bring forth a sustainable global society, we must use this code of conduct as a common standard by which our actions are to be guided and assessed.”

The Earth Charter national site for Jordan is http://www.earthcharterjordan.org

From 23 to 24 November 2010, under the patronage of HRH Princess Basma Bint Talal, the Jordanian Hashemite Fund for Human Development organized a regional meeting in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Earth Charter.  This was done in collaboration of the Ministry of Environment, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) West Office and Earth Charter International Secretariat.     As a result the participants signed the Dead Sea Declaration (in Arabic and English), and the Earth Charter Middle East and North Africa Network was formed.  JOHUD is the coordinating body of this network.