Events

Global Green Pre-Oscar Party
Hollywood, United States of America

Global Green’s Annual Pre-Oscar® Party is THE green event of Oscar Week. 1,500 guests including celebrities, eco-luminaries and entertainment press from around the world come to hear the latest green messages from some of Hollywood’s biggest stars.

The evening culminates with stellar music performances by headline performing talent.
Attendees to the Pre-Oscar® party include Hollywood’s elite activists, actors and musicians, industry executives, political and business leaders and leading environmentalists.

More information: http://globalgreen.org/events/189

World Youth Parliament for Water
Marseille, France 

The aim of the Youth Parliament is to enable the young people to share their solutions for water, encourage youth participation in the World Water Forum's debates and start new initiatives and projects. 

Young people will be invited to tackle issues linked with the topics of the Forum; all these issues should be investigated and discussed in order to provide proposals and solutions that might feed the 6th World Water Forum's process. 

Green Cross is an active participant in the event and is facilitating involvement from a young "parliamentarian" from Ghana.

More information:  

• World Youth Parliament for Water
• World Water Forum
• Green Cross International Water for Life and Peace

World Water Forum
Marseille, France

Every three years since 1997, the World Water Forum mobilises creativity, innovation, competence and know-how in favour of water. It gathers all stakeholders around today’s local, regional and global issues that cannot be undertaken without all stakeholders into a common framework of goals and concrete targets to reach.

The goal of the 6th World Water Forum is to tackle the challenges our world is facing and to bring water high on all political agendas. There will be no sustainable development while the water issues remain unsolved. Everywhere on the planet, for all and everyone, the Right to Water (recognised by 189 states at the UN one year ago) must be guaranteed and implemented.

Green Cross International will be an active participant in the Forum, raising awareness on the importance of the UN Watercourses Convention and promoting the Smart Water for Green Schools model of providing people with access to safe drinking water and sanitation. 

More information:

• Green Cross International Water for Life and Peace
• World Water Forum
• World Youth Parliament for Water
• Gorbachev accepts French invitation to participate in World Water Forum 2012 (press release)

Mikhail Gorbachev Award 2012
Berlin, Germany

The second annual Mikhail Gorbachev Award ceremony will recognize people who have contributed to promoting the concepts of glasnost (openness), perestroika (change), uskorenie (science and technology) and new thinking, four universal concepts that embody the work of Mikhail Gorbachev and define his global reforms aimed at destroying "walls" and ending the Cold War.

The main theme of the award ceremony is the concept of citizenship and the event will be staged as a "breaking news gala," combining the format of an informative journalistic TV program that, with the help of famed talk show host Larry King, will discuss the unprecedented events of 2011.

The ceremony will be hosted by movie star Milla Jovovich. The inaugural event in 2011 featured such personalities as Lech Walesa, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bill Clinton, Shimon Peres, Shirly Bassey and the London Symphony Orchestra.

For more information, go to the Mikhail Gorbachev Award official website. 

Earth Day
Global 

On April 22, more than one billion people around the globe will participate in Earth Day 2012 and help Mobilize the Earth™. People of all nationalities and backgrounds will voice their appreciation for the planet and demand its protection.

The event will be used to call for a sustainable future and urge individuals, organizations, and governments to do their part.

More information:

• Earth Day

 

European Commisson Green Week 2012
Brussels, Belgium

The 12th edition of Green Week, the biggest annual conference on European environment policy, will take place from 22 to 25 May 2012 in Brussels. This year's theme is "Water".

Over some 40 sessions, the conference will focus on water. This valuable resource needs to be used properly and sparingly, making sure that we have enough for all of its uses, and avoiding polluting our rivers, seas and oceans. Along with all other natural resources, this is one of the most vital for our continued existence on this planet.

More information:

• Green Week
• Green Cross International Water for Life and Peace

UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development marks the 20th anniversary of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and has the objective to secure renewed political commitment for sustainable development, assess the progress to date and the remaining gaps in the implementation of the outcomes of the major summits on sustainable development, and address new and emerging challenges

The Conference will focus on two themes: (a) a green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication; and (b) the institutional framework for sustainable development.

The event also marks the 20th anniversary since civil society delegates to the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio called on Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mikhail Gorbachev to create Green Cross International, a nongovernmental organization that would respond to the combined threats of security, environmental degradation and poverty. Green Cross International was founded the next year, 1993.

Related materials:

UN Conference on Sustainable Development 2012
Green Cross submission to Conference zero draft document
Future We Want on Facebook and Twitter

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International Conference on Environmental Education
Moscow, Russia

Every year, Green Cross Russia organizes an international conference on environmental education. The conference, first held in 1994, seeks reform of the educational system to promote sustainable development in Russia and abroad, raise public awareness about the state of the environment and promote healthier living standards.