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The Earth Charter Initiative main goal for Rio 2012 was set as “to emphasize the need for acomprehensive ethical framework, articulating shared values and principles to inspire and guidedifferent actors in the transition to a sustainable future. The aim is also to demonstrate the relevance ofthe Earth Charter to the objectives of the Rio 2012 Conference and its process.” Along these lines, theECI Secretariat organized two sets of online meetings with the objective of bringing together ECIaffiliates, close partners, and friends to share views on the ECI’s plans and strategies towards Rio+20,as well as offer participants an overview of the Rio+20 preparatory process.The first set of online meetings was held from June 28th to 30th, 2011. Three regional meetings wereorganized, each with the same content. The first was held in Spanish for people from Latin America,Spain, and Portugal, the second one was focused on North America, Europe, Africa and the MiddleEast, and the third meeting was for the Asia-Pacific region.Around 70 ECI affiliates, partners, and youth activists participated in this first set of meetings. Overall,these meetings achieved their objective of informing participants and fostering the kind of meaningfuldialogue that could help embed the Earth Charter message in Rio+20 discussions in these regions.Follow-up meetings were held from August 17th to 19th, 2011 with approximately 60 participants.ECI hosted numerous online meetings, webinars, and networking sessions related to Rio+20 andthereby increased its exposure considerably among international youth activists and organizations.The Earth Charter was integrated in the declaration of the UN Department of Public InformationNGO Forum, held in Bonn, Germany in September, 2011. This civil society Declaration was widelyreferenced for the compilation text of the Rio+20 conference.In the second half of the year, ECI Council members and close partners wrote a document that wassubmitted to the United Nations as recommendations for the so-called zero draft compilationdocument for the Rio+20 Summit. This zero draft formed the starting point for the ensuingintergovernmental negotiations of Rio+20. The ECI submission was revised through a consultationprocess with Earth Charter supporters using an online collaborative editing program, where within aperiod of one month contributors were able to edit the document online, suggest changes, andcomment on the changes and suggestions. Around 30 people actively participated in this draftingprocess. The final document was submitted on November 1st, 2011, and can be seen at the UNCSDsubmissions Web site.In addition to the ECI submission, four U.N. Member States and 27 civil society organizations madereferences to the Earth Charter in their recommendations to the compilation document. Five of theseorganizations are Earth Charter affiliates and one of them is a partner organization.At the December 2011 UNCSD intersessional, the Russian delegation made the following statementabout the Earth Charter:14Earth Charter Annual Report 2011
“Based on this document, we should in the future make concrete plans to achieve the Rio objectives.The Russian Federation has suggested endorsement of the Earth Charter or the Charter of SustainableDevelopment”.A number of ECI affiliates and ECI Council members were actively involved in the Rio+20preparatory process stressing the need for a common ethical foundation to guide decisions and sharingthe Earth Charter input document to Rio+20 as appropriate.15Earth Charter Annual Report 2011
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