In the months since the launch, the Safe Planet campaign has gained partners and champions around the world, rapidly propelling the campaign issues into mainstream media, fusing the energy and commitment of international leaders in arts, culture, sports, science, education, business, faith and politics to motivate governments, industry, communities and individuals to respond to the urgent need for action in our interdependent world.
Visit the Safe Planet website for full details of the campaign: www.safepla.net
CURRENT PROJECTS
Haring Woods continues to advise on the strategy for the campaign overall and for the further development of the Friends of Safe Planet.
Body Burden
Working with former Gold Medalist skier, Stine Bratsberg and Haring Woods consultant Jan Gustav Strandenaes, Eileen is developing the strategy and cultural content for the Body Burden project.
PAST PROJECTS
WHAT WILL BE
The visual and performing arts for a Safe Planet at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change COP16 in Cancun Mexico,
November 29 - December 10 2010
Eileen Woods and Barbara Benish co-curated an exhibition of visual arts by Mexican and international artists at the CancunMesse (exhibition) and at the Universidad Tecnologica de Cancun. Our visitor numbers for both venues exceeded 20,000, with the Safe Planet messages reachingconference attendees, students, members of the public and the media.
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Background Information:
Launched at theUnited Nations Body Burden Forum on the opening day of the UNEP Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum in Bali, Indonesia, on 24 February 2010, the Safe Planet Campaign followed immediately upon the adoption by the extraordinary meetings of the Conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions of the synergies decisions establishing Joint Convention Services. The Campaign serves as the framework for the newly-established Joint Information Service’s global programme of public awareness-raising and outreach.
This ambitious campaign shows how each of us can take responsibility for keeping our planet safe against hazardous chemicals and wastes. The Safe Planet Campaign highlights concrete measures and solutions that are available through initiatives undertaken by the three leading global chemicals and waste management instruments – the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions.
By “sharing responsibility”, the Campaign promotes the life-cycle approach to chemicals and waste management. It recognizes that effective solutions to the challenges posed by toxic chemicals and wastes require action be taken by a wide variety of agents working at all levels of society, from Government, industry and educational institutions, to community-led initiatives, grassroots organizations, and the decisions of individual households and consumers.
Safe Planet also cooperates with a number of specific programmes and initiatives, including the Basel Wastes Solutions Circle, Green Customs Initiative, International Pollutant Release and Transfer Coordinating Group, International POPs Elimination Network (IPEN), Mobile Phones Partnership Initiative, OzonAction, PCBs Elimination Network (PEN), Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM),The Access Initiative, as well as academic, business and community-based organizations dedicated to protecting the health of people and the planet against hazardous chemicals and wastes.
To achieve the goals of the conventions and the sound management of chemicals and wastes, a global popular public awareness-raising and outreach campaign is needed.
A primary objective of the Safe Planet Campaign is to increase popular awareness of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions in advance of and during the Rio+20 World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2012.
A secondary objective is to heighten recognition of the Harmful Substances and Hazardous Wastes theme at the Rio+20 Summit and the role a successful chemicals and waste management policy plays in building the new Green Economy.
By establishing the leadership role of the three conventions among multilateral environmental agreements addressing this thematic area and demonstrating the value of working in sync through the synergies process, the Safe Planet Campaign aims to raise political and financial support for implementation of the chemicals and waste cluster agreements.
