Paper presented by Peter Adriance and Sylvia Karlssonat at the 2nd International Conference of the Environment Forum, 6-8 November, 1998, De Poort, The Netherlands.

Un articulo preparado para la revista "Earth Ethics" en 1996 por Steven C. Rockefeller.

The Green Cross Earth Charter Philosophy is a synthesis document elaborated by Green Cross National Organizations and by individual experts during the process of consultations launched in 1996-1997 in Moscow and Geneva in March, 1997.

El Consejo de da Tierra, con la colaboracion de sus instituciones asociadas, llevo a cabo esfuerzos significativos para incluir la participacion de los Pueblos Indigenas dentro de los mecanismos de toma de decisiones relacionados con el desarrollo sostenible. Este documento muestra de que forma los Pueblos Indigenas participaron en el proceso de consulta de la Carta de la Tierra.

Prof. Leonardo Boff presented a rough draft for discussion for an alternate Earth Charter proposed in Petropolis on November 13, 1998.

In January 11, 2001 Prof. Steven C. Rockefeller wrote "The Earth Charter: An Ethical Foundation". A slightly shorter version of this essay appeared in Resurgence magazine from May/June 2001.

This is the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development: The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, having met at Rio de Janeiro from 3 to 14 June 1992.

This document deals with the official endorsement of the Earth Charter by the Republic of Tatarstan and was written by Stephen Smith.

This paper was writen by James W. Poirot, Chairman Emeritus of CH2M Hill Companies, Ltd. Of Denver, Colorado, Vice President for External Affairs of the World Federation of Engineering Organisations (WFEO) and President of its Technology Committee (ComTech).

A paper by Soon-Young Yoon.

This paper was written by Beatriz Schulthess, former Coordinator of the Indigenous Peoples Program of the Earth Council.

The Earth Charter as An International 'Soft-Law' by Donald A. Brown,
Director of the Pennsylvania Consortium for Interdisciplinary Environmental Policy.

In 1996, the Center for Respect of Life and Environment - CRLE distributed a special issue of its quarterly publication, Earth Ethics, focused on the Earth Charter. This report is drawn from a preliminary analysis of some of the responses to this Earth Charter issue. It includes: 1. Exemplary integrated responses and earth charter-type documents submitted; 2. Useful and illustrative responses to the main questions on the response form; and 3. A list of respondents whose material has been analyzed or included.

This paper by Abelardo Brenes and Deborah Du Nann Winter describes the psychological potential of the Earth Charter, a document written primarily by and for non-government organizations and world citizens, for soliciting committed environmental action from people throughout the world.

Abelardo Brenes from the University for Peace, Costa Rica
and Institute for Psychological Research, University of Costa Rica
and Deborah Du Nann Winter from the Whitman College, U.S.A.

El Dr. Francisco Gutierrez Perez, Director ILPEC en Guatemala, nos presenta este documento basado en la Carta de la Tierra de como actuar eticamente.

This paper was presented by Moacir Gadotti at the Forum on our Global Challenges, Costa Rica 2000 Commission: A New Millennium of Peace, University for Peace in San Jose, Costa Rica on November, 2000.

Este documento fue presentado por Moacir Gadotti en el Foro sobre Nuestros Retos Globales, Comision Costa Rica 2000: Un Nuevo Milenio de Paz en la Universidad para la Paz en San Jose, Costa Rica en noviembre del 2000.

What practical difference would the adoption of the Earth's Charter mean to the resolution of the global warming problem written by Donald Brown in 2001, examines the practical effect that adoption of the Earth Charter would have on resolving outstanding global warming issues. It seeks to determine if the Earth Charter were actually adopted by nations and its principles agreed to, how would such agreement resolve important issues that are currently in contention or yet to be faced in international global warming negotiations.

This response offers comments on the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development Framework for the International Implementation Scheme and recommends that the UNESCO Secretariat use the Earth Charter as an educational instrument and an ethical framework for the upcoming Decade.

Global ethics is the critical enquiry into the nature and justification of one’s ethical positions in respect to the relations between human beings across the world. Such ethical enquiry is conducted by moral philosophers, social scientists or indeed anyone willing to think systemically about ethical issues. Nigel Dower.

Written by Dr. Colin Soskolne at the University of Alberta's Express News on May 10, 2002.

This essay, by Richard Clugston, executive director of the Center for Respect of Life and Environment and Earth Charter USA, talks about the potential of the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development and the promise of the Earth Charter.