What you can do
You as a reader can also contribute to this project. Here are a few suggestions that I have implemented myself:
The first step for a correction to lived sustainability begins with questions, for example:
- What ecological footprint do I leave behind in this world (personal interaction with food, housing, heating, mobility)?
- Which goods (house, car, land, meat) and which habits (water and electricity consumption, temperature, heating) can I do without or which ones do I want/have to keep?
- Can I adjust to changes in life, possibly do without something that has always accompanied me in the course of life?
The second step could mean:
- I orient myself on the writing template (see below) and write texts in a similar form.
- send them to my most important caregivers around the world. I had also written this letter to Mrs. Ursula von der Leyen from the European Commission, among others. In the meantime, I am registered there as a world citizen at Have a word to say digital in such a way that I can directly contribute my voice to climate and environmental issues.
Next steps: You will contact like-minded organizations and seek cooperation, for example:
- The Climate Alliance Switzerland: www.klima-allianz.ch is committed to climate change, together with over 150 members and partner organisations. Over the past few years, this institution has become one of the most important campaigners on major issues such as finance, climate justice and energy. I am registered as a member there, which gives me the opportunity to act really locally and globally.
- At that time, the Glacier Initiative emerged from the Climate Protection Switzerland www.klimaschutz.ch Association. The members are committed to a future worth living, with a healthy climate, without fossil fuels, for a better world.
- If you are interested in cosmopolitan issues, I highly recommend contacting www.democracywithoutborders.ch.This association works with international partners and coordinates global initiatives and programs for a UN Parliamentary Assembly
- I am also happy to maintain contact with One Earth Future. EOS aims to make better use of the ideas, skills and networks of state and non-state actors through dialogue and recommendations to promote the United Nations' commitment to peace, sustainable development, human rights and a stable climate.
- From an email with Mr. Brian Finlay, President & CEO www.stimson.org, I learned a lot about the excellent work of this Center for Research. Stimson is particularly committed to creative innovation in environmental and climate issues.
- The Forum Anthropocene is an international platform dedicated to the topic of the Anthropocene (human time) in the interaction of globality, urbanity and rural areas in a transdisciplinary manner. I came across the website by chance and learned something new.
- In Switzerland, I am also registered with the Denknetz. The Denknetz is Switzerland's left-wing think tank and is committed to the fundamental values of freedom, equality and solidarity. This institute notes the increasing social inequalities and a tendency towards a lack of solidarity in society. It aims to better understand the mechanisms of this dynamic, explore and discuss alternatives.
- The SES Energy Foundation Switzerland is committed to a human and environmentally friendly energy policy.
- Der allen Umweltschützern bekannte WWF, Natur- und Umweltschutz sagt: Gemeinsam für einen zukunftsfähigen Planeten. Diese Aussage kann ich nur unterstützen.
- Through the churches, the aid organizations Fastenopfer and Bread for All show ways to create more politically just structures, on an international, national and individual level.
- Finally, I am on good terms with the Generations Foundation. Here, young activists join forces with the generation of their parents and grandparents to change systems together.
If a new IPCC is to be implemented for all nations from top to bottom, so to speak, this means coordinating the development of a set of rules among national state systems, their institutions and organizations. But that's just the beginning.
Real change can only take place if it is brought about and carried from below by the planet's 7.6 billion citizens. And we all belong to this movement. The citizen is just as obliged to act as the laws and regulations of the executive officers of the individual nations..
My environmental and climate appeal is primarily aimed at myself. Maybe other people share my deepest convictions and world views. I would be happy about that and thank you for any support that brings us closer to taking more geopolitical responsibility for our planet.
Christoph J. Rohland, March 2021
Letter to presidents and other responsible
My recommendation: Write others using the following template or come up with your own words in a similar form. Then send the text to all of the most important people you know around the world.
Appeal to: Family, relatives, friends, acquaintances, heads of state and government of all nations, all entrepreneurs of global corporations, and the most powerful influencers of all countries
One World Council for Environmental Protection (WFU)
Dear President .....,
I am writing to you because I am becoming increasingly aware that you are the only one who, at a domestic and international level, and together with your partners in the highest echelons of world governments and business, are able to critically influence the fate of our planet. Your daily actions can sway key decisions for all of our lives. As such, you, as a person, have become indispensable for the entire global population, and I am asking you to support the following request:
Climate and environmental decisions in all 196 nation states always find only national solutions. They are hardly supported by a global world government. Each country answers its ECO issues for itself at best. But geopolitical solutions, as a partial policy detached from other government business, can also be agreed in an internationally strong community of all countries. A closing of ranks for binding ECO laws between global and state regulations is sought. 7-9 world councils and about 200 world parliamentarians for environmental protection can build a global world community. Note: The number of World Councillors and Parliamentarians is a proposal for a new system of government with a largely Swiss character (also known as the Directorial System).
Recognizing that environmental problems are always transnational and growing rapidly on all continents, an Executive World Council for Environmental Protection (WFU) and a World Legislative Parliament for Environmental Protection (WPFU) are formed. As soon as such a set of rules has been established internationally and recognised in a global legal constitution, all forces will be able to act in the interests of the national states. Our most pressing questions about environmental protection and the use of resources and energy should first be recorded nationally and then solved globally.
A World Council for Environmental Protection will liberally and without claim to world domination determine whatever we decide together for our future. On www.climate-solution.org you will find further explanations as to why there is no way around this uncomfortable and laborious way of sustainable globalization. But our chances of a common turnaround for our planet are intact. We can only find a solution together. Decoupling national environmental protection from other national political, economic and other goals is not about losing competence or control over your own authority. On the contrary, it is only through your personal commitment that the implementation in a new geopolitical system becomes possible. With your work for global final solutions in an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for Environmental Protection (WFU), you will arouse great interest among the people of all countries and motivate them to make new achievements. This will increase your international reputation and your name will go down in the history books of the world.
I would be very happy to have a personal conversation or meeting about concrete possibilities for the creation of a World Council for Environmental Protection. I also would like to thank you very much in advance for your important support in spreading this text to your family, friends and relatives, among other people at your management level or in the daily conversations with interested professionals and influencers, also for your great attention to the topic.
Yours sincerely,
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Dear President .....,
I am writing to you because I am becoming increasingly aware that you are the only one who, at a domestic and international level, and together with your partners in the highest echelons of world governments and business, are able to critically influence the fate of our planet. Your daily actions can sway key decisions for all of our lives. As such, you, as a person, have become indispensable for the entire global population, and I am asking you to support the following request:
Climate and environmental decisions in all 196 nation states always find only national solutions. They are hardly supported by a global world government. Each country answers its ECO issues for itself at best. But geopolitical solutions, as a partial policy detached from other government business, can also be agreed in an internationally strong community of all countries. A closing of ranks for binding ECO laws between global and state regulations is sought. 7-9 world councils and about 200 world parliamentarians for environmental protection can build a global world community. Note: The number of World Councillors and Parliamentarians is a proposal for a new system of government with a largely Swiss character (also known as the Directorial System).
Recognizing that environmental problems are always transnational and growing rapidly on all continents, an Executive World Council for Environmental Protection (WFU) and a World Legislative Parliament for Environmental Protection (WPFU) are formed. As soon as such a set of rules has been established internationally and recognised in a global legal constitution, all forces will be able to act in the interests of the national states. Our most pressing questions about environmental protection and the use of resources and energy should first be recorded nationally and then solved globally.
A World Council for Environmental Protection will liberally and without claim to world domination determine whatever we decide together for our future. On www.climate-solution.org you will find further explanations as to why there is no way around this uncomfortable and laborious way of sustainable globalization. But our chances of a common turnaround for our planet are intact. We can only find a solution together. Decoupling national environmental protection from other national political, economic and other goals is not about losing competence or control over your own authority. On the contrary, it is only through your personal commitment that the implementation in a new geopolitical system becomes possible. With your work for global final solutions in an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for Environmental Protection (WFU), you will arouse great interest among the people of all countries and motivate them to make new achievements. This will increase your international reputation and your name will go down in the history books of the world.
I would be very happy to have a personal conversation or meeting about concrete possibilities for the creation of a World Council for Environmental Protection. I also would like to thank you very much in advance for your important support in spreading this text to your family, friends and relatives, among other people at your management level or in the daily conversations with interested professionals and influencers, also for your great attention to the topic.
Yours sincerely,
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