Bilingual (English/Dutch) meeting Sunday 4 June 2023, 11.30 (open for coffee at 11.00) – 16.30 at Elisabeth Vreedehuis, The Hague

Five years after a first International Gathering on Earth Trusteeship in June 2018, followed by the adoption of the Hague Principles on Earth Trusteeship at the Peace Palace on the occasion of “70 Years Universal Declaration of Human Rights”, we are pleased to invite you for a “forward-looking” network meeting and book launch.

The title of the first-ever book on the subject is Reflections on Earth Trusteeship. Mother Earth and a new 21st-century governance paradigm.

First gathering at Vreedehuis, June 2018 – photo Dirk Zeilstra

The Earth Trusteeship Working Group (ETWG), who prepared the 416 pages volume – published by INI Books, Thailand – is in various ways engaged with “open coalition networking” towards the UN Summit of the Future, to be held in September 2024. An important issue is the creation of a Special UN Envoy for Future Generations. Also, we actively supported and continue supporting the ICJAO (Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice) campaign on climate justice, resulting in the UN General Assembly request by consensus to the ICJ in The Hague. We anticipate a substantial contribution from the perspective of Earth Trusteeship to the related discourse. The ICJAO campaign was an initiative of the Pacific Island Students Fighting Climate Change (PISFCC), pioneering Pacific Island state Vanuatu, and the World’s Youth for Climate Justice.

We are very keen to reconnect with ongoing Dutch, and European, networks and new partners. After our last meeting in October 2019 (Toekomstdag sociaal ondrnemen) the COVID crisis interrupted the flow of our collaboration.

Authors of Reflections on Earth Trusteeship include:

Nnimmo Bassey – Michel Bauwens – Klaus Bosselmann – CURLS2019 summer school – Mayssam Daaboul – Kelly Dorkenoo – Anwar Fazal – Maja Groff – Neshan Gunasekera – Paulo Magalhães – Henry Mentink – Raúl Montenegro – Jessica den Outer – Joel Persson – Jose Ramos – Vandana Shiva – Justin Sobion (Ed.) – Prue Taylor – Dasho Karma Ura – Ole von Uexkull (Prologue) – Alyn Ware – Femke Wijdekop – Hans van Willenswaard (Ed.).

More information will follow soon.