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CHALLENGE TO GOVERNMENTS AND PEOPLE OF THE WORLD
from the International Children’s Conference on Environment 2002
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada May 21-25, 2002
I. WATER
We challenge the governments of the world to:
Be good environmental role models for everyone
Conserve water by:
Promoting the use of organic farming
Redesigning fuels so that they don't pollute water
Collecting rainwater for drinking and watering gardens
Encouraging the use of technologies that help purify and/or conserve water
Supporting environmental groups
Incorporate solar aquatic sewage treatment in their country
Build bio-degrading facilities like Solar Aquatics.
Do not clear cut, as it causes soil erosion.
Find alternatives to oil
Create more environmental projects and contests for kids.
Ensure that people from developing countries all have access to clean drinking water and it should be shared equally.
Protect wetlands and water in order for environmental programs to keep functioning.
Put in place stronger laws and penalties against industries, individuals and corporations that pollute water. Fines should be put
in place and the money from the fines should go towards cleaning up the water.
We challenge the people of the world to:
Be good role models
Protect and do not pollute water!
II. CLIMATE CHANGE
We challenge the governments of the world to:
Sign the Kyoto Protocol
Ban and create laws against CFC's and other toxic chemicals
Stop war and bring back the environment to what it was 300 years ago.
Support the use of alternative transportation, like biking, walking, using more public transportation and carpooling, instead of driving.
Limit the use of gas cars, to make idling for more than 5 minutes illegal and to limit the number of cars per family
Make clear cut logging illegal and if you do log, plant two trees for everyone tree you cut down.
Give money for research about electric cars, alternative energy and eco-friendly products and technology.
Make a limit on the number of factories in a city and fine cities that have too many. To close all the industries for
one day per year and penalize industries that use fossil fuels.
Use greener energy like solar, wind, biomass and hydrogen. Ban non-green energy like fossil fuels.
Have more recycling and composting programs.
We challenge the people of the world to:
Not buy products that cause pollution
Use ozone friendly products, heal and protect the environment
Educate everyone about climate change, education and carpooling.
Decrease pollution and stop smoking. Have an Earth Week instead of an Earth Day.
Live simply and use only what you need.
Promote greener cars, like solar and electric cars, and make them cheaper
Invent more solar cars and machines that treat pollution.
III. HEALTHY CHILDREN, HEALTHY COMMUNITIES
We challenge the governments of the world to:
Help developing communities to be healthier, to work together, and to focus on leadership
Forgive the debts of developing countries
Promote health care and vaccinations for all the children of the world
Have International Friendship and Multicultural Days
Make a lane for bikes and roller blades so that people can exercise without using cars.
Have clean, healthy plants, animals and parks. Clean up slums.
Incorporate environmental education into the school curriculum. Encourage clean-ups and more involvement in
environmental issues.
Make sure that everybody is healthy, has clean water and good food and a place to live
Stop child labour in harsh conditions (sweat shops and chemical factories)
Ensure that the people of the world have clean water and a healthy environment.
Stop destroying non-renewable resources.
Make stricter laws on the environment and the use of landmines.
Keep your community clean and children healthy by not using pesticides and/or herbicides
Listen to each other, especially children.
We challenge the people of the world to:
Reduce, reuse, recycle and compost. Use renewable resources and use them wisely. Reduce the number of
factories and cars.
Create clean, healthy, peaceful homes and better living conditions
Respect all creatures and realize that we are not the only ones on the planet
Redistribute the wealth, and help someone less fortunate
Come together with their communities and focus on the environmental issues that they are facing
Conserve water by taking shorter showers.
Don't pollute water and treat sewage properly.
Stop smoking and, if they must, they should not smoke in front of children.
Listen to each other and especially children.
IV. RESOURCE CONSERVATION
We challenge the governments of the world to:
Stop cutting down trees without replacing them
Create more efficient cars
Put a limit on how much fossil fuels we use
Protect our environment through keeping the landmarks of the different cultures of the world and
banning clear-cutting
Limit the drilling of oil
Protect fresh water from pollution by ensuring that it is not wasted or misused by individuals
Tax people that waste non-renewable resources
Create protected areas and plant more trees
Find more sources of energy and use what we have more efficiently
Invent solar energy, use bio-degradable products and use buses, subways or carpools
Make and enforce new laws on conserving our natural resources
Give tax breaks for environmentally-friendly products
We challenge the people of the world to:
Reduce, reuse and recycle
Protect the earth's resources e.g. don't clear cut and plant more trees
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