The Earth Council is a proposal on global and responsible management of Earth, conceived to be complementary and suplementary to the United Nations organization, and aimed at resolving conflicts at three levels: Inter-State, Intra-State and Human-Environmental, trying to mitigate those armed and non-armed conflicts between states and between states and their indigenous populations, as well as those of a global environmental nature, like climate change, representing a serious threat for humans but which are generated by the own human development.
The Earth Council seeks to overcome the problems inherent to the United Nations as an international organization restricted to the participation of state governments that with their different and often conflicting interests, uneven weights and spheres of influencia in the international arena slow down and even hinder the application of effective and fair solutions to the major problems human communities face in our planet.
The Earth Council proposes a tripartite alternative, an equal footing and shared decisioin making operational model including, in addition to governments, indigenous groups, in a second place, and civil society organizations and scientif commisions, in the third place of an equilateral operational triangle, all of them organized not by state schemes but using an eco-social approach. It would guarantee the conservation of nature together with integrated social development in a jointly management model to safeguard the Earth´s major biocultural regions.
Inspired by the already existing Arctic Council, the Earth Council would be the sum of all the Regional Biocultural Councils that represent the interests of the Earth itself with all their natural colonizers, humans included, who would act as global custodians empowered to achieve a long-term environmental balance.
Considered in this way, the Earth Council would be composed of the following Regional Biocultural Councils:
1. Oceania Council
2. Monsoon Asia Council 3. High Asia Council 4. Inner-Central Asia Council 5. Arctic Council 6. Western Asia Council |
7. Middle East Council
8. Mediterranean Council 9. Central-East Europe Council 10. Sahara-Sahel Council 11. East Africa Council 12. Congo Basin Council |
13. Southern Africa Council
14. Chaco-Patagonia Council 15. Andean Council 16. Amazonian Basin Council 17.Central American Council 18. Northern American Council |