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Background
The Earth Dialogues is a public forum initiated by Mikhail
Gorbachev and Maurice Strong which aims to provoke a global
mobilisation to further the achievements of three objectives
essential to the future of humanity: averting the ecological
disasters which threaten our planet; fighting the plague of
poverty; and acting to ensure truly sustainable development.
The last decade of international summits has confirmed very
clearly the enormous challenges in 1) raising awareness among
the world's inhabitants about the critical linkages between
ethics and sustainable development; 2) instilling a sense
of personal accountability in citizens, governments, businesses
and international actors for support of sustainability initiatives;
3) monitoring the implementation of sustainability objectives;
and 4) furnishing opportunities for the development of
collective ethics-based action strategies and partnerships.
Representatives of civil society, government, international
organisations, finance, business, religion, media and academia,
along with members of the public, convene to exchange their
views on how to reinvigorate the ethics debate within the
sustainable development agenda. The Earth Dialogues provide
a public platform to question the role of ethics in sustainable
development, analyse the challenges to achieving sustainability,
and propose strategies for promoting solutions to the most
pressing problems facing humanity in the 21st century, in
order to foster a more equitable, just and sustainable future.
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