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Climate justice

The destruction of our planet is not a new problem. It has been a problem for many decades which gained gigantic dimensions through an international economy developing with galloping rate –without any moral dilemmas– and through an international community that turned a blind eye to the messages of the environmental organisations and sensitised citizens.

Nowadays, there is no doubt that we have reached the “zero hour”. If we do not coordinate our actions and if these actions do not aim at the heart of problem, the gain for the salvation of planet will be lost.

This fight, which we should together undertake, is not an “inanimate fight”. It is a multifaceted fight, which the more it develops the more dramatic its revelation of “the human face of the climate” is; i.e. the impact of the climate change and the destruction of the planet on human populations, on  immigration increase, on poverty increase.

Fortunately, nowadays, the mobilisation is international, a new crusade aiming precisely at the “climate justice”, i.e. at the protection of the sensitive groups, which do not have the means nor the knowledge of fighting or resisting. Those groups, however, constitute the first and most affected victims of the war that began many years ago and are in danger of being proven fatal for the entire humanity.

The “Foundation for the Child and the Family” participates in all the international efforts for a “climate justice” with all its strength; for this new notion that nevertheless expresses the face of our modern culture.

For this reason it collaborates with the Global Humanitarian Forum, whose President is the former Secretary-General of the UN, Mr Kofi Annan, UNESCO and “The Energy and Resources Institute” (TERI), whose Director-General is the Nobel Peace Laureate 2007, Dr Rajendra Pachauri.

The President of “Foundation for the Child and the Family”, Ms Marianna V. Vardinoyannis is a founding member of the Global Humanitarian Forum, along with many other personalities of international prestige. She participated in the event for the foundation of the “Global Humanitarian Forum” as well as in the “Universal call for climate change”. Furthermore, the “Foundation for the Child and the Family” and TERI co-organise an international conference in Athens with the topic “Climate changes and the Challenges for the Future Generations”, under the auspices of UNESCO.