COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Hazel Brown (Women)

Angela Cropper (Cropper Foundation)

Ricardo Cruz (Carib Community)

Ayana Dardaine (Youth)

Rodney de Boehmler (Business)

Akilah Jaramogi (Reforestation CBO)

Noble Khan (IRO)

Nicole Leotaud (Environmental Education)

Larry McIntosh (Developmental CBO)

Mark Meredith (Communications)

Garfield Murray (Tobago/Professional Association)

Jacob Opadeyi (University)

Courtenay Rooks (Ecotourism)

Mary Schorse (Secretary)

Eden Shand (Chair)

On June 29, 2000, a meeting was held at the Hotel Normandie in Port of Spain to launch the Earth Charter National Committee of Trinidad and Tobago. The National Committee is part of a global Earth Charter Project (Website: www.earthcharter.org ) being coordinated by the Earth Council based in Costa Rica. The purpose of this civil society committee is to promote nationally the ethical values of the recently completed Earth Charter.

The Earth Charter is intended to serve as the environmental equivalent of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights - to guide relations of humans with the Earth, as well as to integrate a concern for environmental protection with social justice and economic opportunity. As a result of a world wide consultation process, which began in May 1995, the Earth Charter Commission issued a final version of the Earth Charter in March, 2000. The Charter was officially launched on June 29, 2000 in The Hague, Holland by Commission Co-Chairs, Mikhail Gorbachev and Maurice Strong, former Secretary General of the 1992 Earth Summit.

The National Committee is in the process of planning the National Earth Charter Campaign which culminates in the presentation of the Earth Charter to the United Nations General Assembly in 2002, ten years after the Earth Summit. The National Earth Charter Campaign is aimed at promoting the incorporation and implementation of Earth Charter principles in the personal behaviour, work activities, education, business practice, national development plans, and daily decisions of all the people of Trinidad and Tobago.

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