International Green Cross
The International Green Cross (Green Cross International, abbr. GCI) was founded on April 18, 1993 in Kyoto by Mikhail Gorbachev . The environmental protection organization is committed to sustainability and a secure future by promoting a change in values towards shared, global responsibility and mutual dependence. The organization promotes legal and ethical norms of conduct with the aim of building a sustainable, global community. Its aim is to solve and prevent conflicts that have been brought about by environmental degradation and to provide assistance where environmental degradation occurs as a result of war or conflict.
As early as October 1987, during a lecture in Murmansk , Gorbachev presented a concept under which the topics of environmental protection, nuclear disarmament, security policy and development should be summarized. In January 1990 in Moscow he proposed an organization based on the model of the International Red Cross. The preparations for the establishment of the International Green Cross began in June 1992. At the same time founded the Swiss politician Roland Wiederkehr an organization World Green Cross with the same goals. In 1993 the two organizations merged. The first national organizations arose in Japan, the Netherlands, the Russian Federation, Switzerland and the United States; their representatives met in The Hague in the spring of 1994.
The organization promotes the Earth Dialogues and the Earth Charter . The head office is in Geneva ( Switzerland ).
In 2009, the Green Cross consisted of organizations in 31 countries.
Awards
In 2009 the organization received the Save the World Award in Austria .
Web links
- Official website (English)
- www.earthdialogues.org - The Earth Dialogues (English)