COUNCIL - Earth Charter Initiative

3. ECI Secretariat
endeavours to promote the mission, vision, strategies and policies adopted by the ECI Council. It supports
and religion, manages communications with the larger Earth Charter network, and promotes the use of the
Earth Charter as an international soft law document.
4. Task Forces
Media, Religion, Spirituality and Ethics, the United Nations and Global Governance, and Youth, and has
encouraged the formation of task forces designed to operate as independed volunteer networks that promote
Earth Charter activities in these areas. Task forces are organized as networks of committed activists with
direct, manage, or fund the work of the task forces. One major purpose of the task forces is to catalyze the
development of multiple, small, independent action groups.
5. Action Groups
Action Groups are small, independent teams of volunteers committed to advancing the Earth Charter’s
Action groups are entrepreurial, imaginative and creative in developing and implementing their own
able to easily engage others with the Earth Charter.
6. Advisors
ECI Advisors are individuals who are formally recognized as sources of expert advice and support for the
ECI Council and Secretariat. Individuals are invited to become advisors based on their commitment to the
Earth Charter, their capacity to actively provide advice and support for the ECI Council, the Secretariat and
director of the Secretariat.
7. Ambassadors
executive director of the Secretariat may make such appointments in consultation with the ECI Council cochairs.
Ambassadors may include, for example, well-known performing artists, current or former heads of state,
prominent business leaders, Nobel Prize winners or well-known civil society leaders.
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