Mission
Our areas of activity
Our Charter



Mission

The mission of GCI is to respond to the combined challenges of security, poverty and environmental degradation to ensure a sustainable and secure future.
To achieve this, GCI:
Promotes legal, ethical and behavioural norms that ensure basic changes in the values, actions and attitudes of government, the private sector and civil society, necessary to a sustainable global community; Contributes to prevention and resolution of conflicts arising from environmental degradation; Provides assistance to people affected by the environmental consequences of wars, conflicts and man made calamities.
GCI seeks solutions through dialogue, mediation and co-operation.



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Our areas of activity

• Promotes legal, ethical and behavioral norms that ensure basic changes in the values, actions and attitudes of government, the private sector and civil society, necessary to build a sustainable global community
• Prevents and resolves conflicts arising from environmental degradation
• Provides assistance to people affected by the environmental consequences of wars and conflicts


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Preventing and resolving conflicts over natural resources

GCI recognises that in the face of an ever-growing global population, and the need for natural resources duly increasing, conflicts over resources increase. We are most active on water and energy issues. To learn more about what we do, please click here.



consequences.jpgAddressing the environmental consequences of wars and conflicts

The second of our three main areas of activity was established in 1993 with the mandate of safely eliminating weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) and mitigating the social, health, and environmental impacts of conflicts and nuclear, chemical, and biological contamination. GCI has 3 main areas of activity within this sector: the Legacy of the Cold War Programme; the Social, Medical, Care, and Education Programme; and Post-War Environmental Analysis. To learn more about this, please click here.


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Promoting values and behaviour changes
Under this heading Green Cross International operates various initiatives: the implementation of the Earth Charter via the Earth Dialogues; and numerous Environmental Education initiatives organised by Green Cross National Organisations throughout the world. These programmes seek to highlight the critical nexus between the issues of security, poverty, and the environment, and facilitate dialogue that will effectively change the values and behaviour of governments and the general public. To learn more about GCI's activities on these issues and others, please click here.


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Our Charter

Preamble:
"Life is precious. All forms of life have their own intrinsic value and share our planetary home in an interdependent community in which all parts are essential to the functioning of the whole. We have a moral and ethical obligation to preserve life in its integrity and maintain our planet healthy and secure for present and future generations.

As the issues of climate change and environmental degradation bring about a much needed wake up call to modern society with the realization that the global challenges of security, poverty and the environment are intrinsically connected Green Cross International will focus its activities on this critical nexus in the quest for a just, secure and sustainable future for humanity.

Therefore, we, the members of Green Cross International, based on the initial charter adopted at the first Board meeting in Kyoto, Japan, on 18-19 April 1993, and later modifications and the Earth Charter under the leadership of President Mikhail Gorbachev, founder and first President of Green Cross International, hereby adopt the following charter of Green Cross International"

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