Earth Charter Meeting 2008
Welcome to the special webpage for participants of the High Level Earth Charter Network meeting.
Contact: If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Sherlien Sanches at
earthcharter@ncdo.nl.
- Documents:
The following documents are recommended to read before the meeting. We have added some more documents which we thought are of interest to the agenda of the meeting. Most documents will be available for you in print upon arrival, in your conference folder.
For more background information and Earth Charter activities, please visit the ECI website: www.earthcharter.org.
- 1. ECI Handbook
If you do not have much time, at least read the Earth Charter International Handbook. It is sent to all participants by email seperately. You also find it on the ECI website.
- 2. Draft Task Force Action Plans
- 3. The Earth Charter and Human Rights
- 4. The Earth Charter and Climate Change
- Discussion Paper: Contraction & Convergence a framework for ethically closing the mitigation implementation gap, prepared for the Potznan Climate Change Conference, by Brendan Mackey, ECI Council member, November 2008
- How to win the struggle against Global Warming, by Brendan Mackey and SongLi, 2007
- Reactions on the paper by Mackey and SongLi can be found on the ECI webpage: http://www.earthcharterinaction.org/climate/
- Worldconnectors Statement on Sustainable Development and Climate Change, 2008
- Ethics and the Challenge of Sustaining Gaia: Why the Earth Charter Matters for Climate Change by Johannah Bernstein, 2008
- The Earth Charter Guide to Religion and Climate Change, by Michael Slaby, November 2008
