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.

The Earth Charter has entered the You Tube/ CNN’s competition “Raise your voice: change climate change”.

Half of the UN CSD Major Group on Children & Youth's Regional Coordinators are Earth Charter youth network activists!

Nigerian Earth Charter Youth Group coordinator Esther Agbarakwe was funded by German government to attend the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) 17th Session. Esther role was to represent Earth Charter Initiative’s youth network – read her comprehensive report from the event!

The Final Bonn Declaration, a key outcome of the UNESCO World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development, makes a reference to the Earth Charter and an Earth Charter Special Event takes place.

Two months after the UN General Assembly's High Level Dialogue on Interreligious and Intercultural Understanding and Cooperation for Peace, the Presidency of the General Assembly published its official summary paper of the Interactive Hearing with Civil Society in which Steven Rockefeller participated on behalf of Earth Charter International (see special report posted below).

For the first time ever, the Earth Charter was officially presented to the UN General Assembly at an interactive informal hearing with representatives of civil society. The context for this important event was the General Assembly’s High Level Dialogue on Interreligious and Intercultural Understanding and Collaboration for Peace, which took place on October 4 and 5, 2007. The dialogue was based on UN Resolution A/61/221, which encourages governments, UN agencies and civil society to increase efforts to deepen understanding and collaboration between cultures, religions and civilizations.

The Earth Charter was a part of the International Workshop on the U.N. Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, held in Bonn, Germany, on the 28th and 29th of November, 2006.

 

Moacir Gadotti, the Earth Charter Initiative Affiliate in Brazil and Director of Paulo Freire Institute, participated and spoke. He asked, “What skills do we need to learn to promote Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)? What attitudes and behaviors can we stimulate to improve ESD?”