Green Cross Ukraine stands at the forefront of humanitarian aid, providing crucial support to children and families in need. With your generous contributions, we can continue to make a significant impact on the lives of those affected by displacement and hardship.
Providing Clean Drinking Water to Internal Refugees
You help to provide safe and clean drinking water to the refugee camp located near Terebla Village. Many families critically lack access to clean drinking water. Currently, they rely on untreated river water, leading to numerous health problems.
To address the pressing need for clean water, Green Cross Ukraine aims to implement a water access project in the refugee camp with internally displaced families. This initiative will bring forth the installation of filtration systems to provide safe drinking water for these families.
Revival Summer Camps for Ukrainian Refugees
With your contributions we can help many families who have lost their fathers and the main source of income in Ukraine. These families of mostly women and children are under severe stress and need a place to heal, rest and recover.
In collaboration with the Ukrainian Ministry of Education, Green Cross Ukraine plans to establish summer camps in the Zakarpattia region. These camps will offer a safe and nurturing environment for Ukrainian children and their mothers, allowing them to recover and rejuvenate amid the turmoil.
The video showed at the Earth-X event in Texas the 23rd of April 2024
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A multi-media symphonic experience featuring a live orchestral performance, thought provoking narration, and mesmerizing synchronized visuals, Environmental Symphony: The Movement explores our history, our future, and our ability to make a difference.
The origin of Environmental Symphony was a passionate composition by Dr. Alan Zavod as a live performance masterpiece with five narration roles that continue in the tradition of 'Carnival of the Animals' and 'Peter and the Wolf'. An ambitious and epic work that spans billions of years, from the formation of the planet through to the devastation of our current age, and a chance of hope for the future. This is the inspiration of the music and visual creative exploration for Environmental Symphony: The Movement.
In commemoration of “United Nations Day'' on October 24th, the Environmental Symphony: The Movement will perform at the UN General Assembly Hall with leaders from 194 countries. Hosted by Family Offices for Sustainable Development (FOSD), the purpose of the event is to not only celebrate and reaffirm the principles of the UN Charter that have guided humanity for the past 78 years, but to mobilize world leaders around the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
“Environmental Symphony: The Movement, brings us together as people to experience the magnificent fusion of music, visuals and storytelling. It is a brilliant blueprint of how art can indeed be a catalyst for activation through inspiration. At its core, the symphony reminds us of the importance of a call to action for the people of all nations to BE AN INSTRUMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE through peace, unity and connection.”
— Michael L. Sander
The Family Offices for Sustainable Development (FOSD) Summit at United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) will bring together world leaders, government officials, diplomats, philanthropists, civil leaders, and select Family Offices from across the globe to highlight the power of data and public-private partnerships to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for the world’s most vulnerable countries. Presented by the Environmental Symphony, the FOSD Summit at UNGA will formally announce the UN Day Concert.
BACKGROUND: In response to the global pandemic, the PVBLIC Foundation - in partnership with the UN Multi- Partner Trust Fund Office (“MPTF”) and the UN Office for Partnerships (“UNOP”) - launched the Family Offices for Sustainable Development (“FOSD”).
MISSION: Mobilize family offices across the globe around the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and optimize their capacity to have an impact through philanthropy, investments, and public-private partnerships.
PARTNER: As the official impact partner, FOSD will not only utilize its network to bring the Environmental Symphony to communities around the world, but will channel the support generated towards the most impactful institutions, campaigns, and programs that are achieving the SDGs.
GREEN CROSS INTERNATIONAL is an Official Partner of The Environmental Symphony.
2023:
United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai, UAE [December 7th, 2023]
2024:
EarthX-2024 in Dallas, Texas [April 24, 2024]
Global Island Summit (SIDS 4) in Antigua and Barbuda [May 27, 2024]
United Nations General Assembly [September, 2024]
United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) [TBD]
Watch the Livestream on October 24, 6:30 PM EST hon the United Nation YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@unitednations and UN Web TV: webtv.un.org
Social channels:
Website:
https://www.environmentalsymphony.com
For further information contact:
Brett McCall | brett@indeworks.com | 312.560.6557
Donation + Sponsorship:
Parixit Pathak | parixit@indeworks.com | 510.468.6811
Our beloved Founding President Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev has left us. This is of great sadness for our Green Cross Family worldwide, as well as for the international community. President Gorbachev will be greatly missed by all.
Never before has our world seen such a visionary leader. "The man who changed the world" was very early to set the seeds of change that can bring forth a sustainable planetary future.
All the great work that President Gorbachev brought forth, starting some 30 years ago, shows he was far ahead of his time. He was a trailblazer calling to raise awareness, ethical change, dialog and cooperation to address the very critical issues we now face as a human race.
President Gorbachev has passed, however his beacon of Light now shines even brighter. He lived his life in unwavering commitment to a better world, to cultivate peace, disarmament and environmental security, in solidarity and unity with the Earth.
Mikhail Sergeyevich brought humanity new hope. He brought “glasnost” and "perestroika", an openness, a new thinking, and restructuring of society. He brought down the Berlin Wall, and ending the cold war, while opening a path for a free Europe, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, in 1990.
Never before has a world leader in power proposed a full ban of all nuclear weapons, as President Gorbachev did at the Global Forum on Environment and Development for the Survival of Humanity, that same year. There he also proposed the creation of a "Green Cross for the Earth" to promote international cooperation for environmental protection.
Founded in 1993, Green Cross International is the birth child of President Gorbachev, which became established 30 countries. He was one of the first world leaders to sound the alarm on climate change, and created the international Climate Task Force, with renowned leaders and scientists.
In a letter to the GCI General Assembly dated August 22, 2019 President Gorbachev reflected over the legacy and achievements of Green Cross International.
He wrote: "Green Cross as a part of a global movement, and has awakened millions of people to become concerned about the fate of our planet.
"Our work focused including Earth ethics and environmental education, elimination of the environmental consequences of the arms race, and access to clean water."
President Gorbachev went on to say, "Each of those areas we have great achievements. I am referring to the Earth Charter we helped to establish, which is a guidelines of governance for all sectors of society, and the school curricula that reached out to millions of children."
He reflected on the "implementation of the Convention banning chemical weapons, the conclusion of the UN Transboundary Water Convention, and to many projects big and small to which our active supporters gave their efforts and their hearts."
"Green Cross must continue its important role within the international community to cultivate cooperation and to bring forth solutions for a sustainable future during this time of ecological and human crisis."
President Gorbachev's long-term understanding of the steps needed towards mankind's planetary future will now live on beyond his time on Earth.
Let us take his advice to heart: "Let us awaken humanity to the environmental planetary crisis. Let us change from within, our consciousness. Let us work together with all levels of society, and over international borders."
We thank you Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev for all you have done for our world.
Green Cross International
Green Cross International’s roots can be traced back to President Mikhail Gorbachev’s time in office as Head of State of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, a period during which he spoke repeatedly about the interrelated threats humanity and our Earth face from nuclear arms, chemical weapons, unsustainable development, and the man-induced decimation of the planet’s ecology.
The mission of Green Cross International is to respond to the combined challenges of security, poverty and environmental degradation to ensure a sustainable and secure future. We seek solutions through dialogue, mediation and co-operation.
To achieve this we:
Promote legal, ethical and behavioural norms that ensure basic changes in the values, actions and attitudes of government, the private sector and civil society, necessary to develop a sustainable global community;
Contribute to the prevention and resolution of conflicts arising from environmental degradation;
Provide assistance to people affected by the environmental consequences of wars, conflicts and man made calamities.
We help children, families, and communities break the cycle of poverty by
empowering people of all ages to dream, aspire and achieve.
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Green Cross International is an environmentalist organisation headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, founded by former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1993. Today there are member organisations in 30 countries. Its primary mission is to "respond to the combined challenges of security, poverty and environmental degradation to ensure a sustainable and secure future".
Green Cross International was founded by former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1993, building upon the work started by the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
On 6 June 1992, the Rio Earth Summit delegates asked Gorbachev to establish Green Cross International, and around the same time Swiss National Council MP Roland Wiederkehr founded “World Green Cross”, with similar aims. The two organisations merged in 1993, becoming Green Cross International, which was formally launched in Kyoto, Japan, on 18 April 1993.
In 1994, the first Green Cross National Organisations (GCNOs) joined GCI in The Hague, including Japan, The Netherlands, the Russian Federation, Switzerland, and the United States.
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