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"Is it too late to prevent us from self-destructing? No, for we have the capacity to design our own future, to take a lesson from living things around us and bring our values and actions in line with ecological necessity. But we must first realize that ecological and social and economic issues are all deeply intertwined. There can be no solution to one without a solution to the others."

Jean-Michel Cousteau
Green Cross International Honorary Board Member

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Wednesday, 10 March 2010

Green Schools in Africa give kids Smart Water

Green Cross International (GCI) has launched the Smart Water for Green Schools project together with Pureology Serious Colour Care®. By encouraging exchanges between schools in the same river basins, the partnership aims to promote smart water systems and water conservation at the local, national and international levels. The project also ensures hygiene and sanitation education.

GC Family Clubs continuing to help families in Chernobyl region

Green Cross Switzerland Mother and Child projects in Belarus continue to provide families focused medical attention to improve the heath of mothers and children. The family Misuno is just one example of many who was helped by the Green Cross Famiy Club.

GC Spain addresses sports in National Parks

Green Cross Spain in collaboration with the Biodiversity Foundation is developing a project that will look at sports played inside protected nature areas, especially focusing on national parks. The project will also propose preventive measures for sustainable use.

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Activity Report 2008-2009

The 2008-2009 Activity Report provides information on Green Cross International's projects and activities worldwide during 2008 and 2009.

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Organization for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
The Chemical Weapons Convention is an international treaty which bans the development, production, stockpiling, transfer and use of chemical weapons, and also stipulates their timely destruction. The Convention entered into force in 1997 and mandated the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to eliminate the scourge of chemical weapons forever and to verify the destruction of the declared chemical weapons stockpiles within stipulated deadlines. The OPCW's inspectors monitor and verify the inactivation, and later destruction or conversion, of all declared chemical weapons production facilities, as well as the destruction of declared chemical weapons stockpiles. At the same time, OPCW inspectors verify the consistency of industrial chemical declarations and, together with the States Parties, monitor the non-diversion of chemicals for activities prohibited under the Chemical Weapons Convention.