A key component of this Pact is the planetary commons approach which emphasises the need for a global governing body to oversee the planet’s life-sustaining systems. Recommendations for the planetary commons approach came from a policy brief, ‘Towards a Planetary Commons Approach for Environmental Governance’, issued by the Global Challenges Foundation, United Nations University Centre for Policy Research and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.
The Summit of the Future event coincides with the 33rd anniversary of a controversial document, ‘The Initiative for Eco-92 Earth Charter’. This document was distributed at a conference in Des Moines by the United Nations Association of Iowa, in preparation for the UN’s environmental conference in Rio de Janeiro 1992. This disturbing document advocated for forceful population control measures and global resource management by a select group of powerful nations....<<<Read More>>>...
