People’s Charter for an Eco-Social WorldThe People’s Charter for an Eco-Social World comes from the People’s Global Summit, ‘CoBuilding a New Eco-Social World: Leaving No One Behind’, held online on 29 June - 2 July
2022. It is a living document and reference point that will grow as the world’s populations
share their solutions to our joint challenges, so all people can live with confidence, security,and peace in a sustainable world. The People´s Global Summit will continue to promote andsupport local and global action to unlock the means to co-design and co-build a new ecosocial world. Together, we will bring our local and global expertise from working incommunities and populations where transformative change has taken place.
Development of the Charter
1. The People´s Global Summit was initiated by 26 diverse global organisations
representing hundreds of millions of people. We represent different faiths, philosophies,
rights movements, workforces, generations, traditions and cultures. We have gatheredwith people from across the world, bridging movements for justice, to create new ways
to work together for sustainability and quality of life for all.
2. The People’s Global Summit recognises that the pledges made by governments since
the founding of the United Nations - the pillars of peace, development and human rights– have facilitated crucial steps forward but have not yet been realised. Challenges areat crisis point. Rights have been eroded. Inequalities and fractures have grown. Poverty
sits alongside extreme wealth. Nature has been degraded, leading to climate warming
and environmental destruction. Millions of people have been displaced as a result,adding to the millions more displaced by conflict and violence. The governments thatmade these commitments have prioritized competition over collaboration andsovereignty over solidarity. They have not yet served the people they represent.
3. The Charter is initially submitted as an invitation and call to action to the world’s leaders
at the United Nations High-Level Political Forum and General Assembly.
4. We, the people, have come out from the silos that divide us, to work together and, witheveryone, to co-build a new eco-social world. We invite you all to join us in co-creating
policies, practices and actions based on inclusion, intergenerational respect, mutualunderstanding, a celebration of our differences and agreement on our shared futures.
5. The People’s Global Summit recognises the inspiration given by the community-ledsocial and ecological movements and seen in indigenous wisdom worldwide. Youngpeople and future generations are co-creators and co-builders of this movement for an
eco-social world.
Values
6. The People’s Global Summit sees the following interconnected, diverse values as abasis for forming a holistic, inclusive framework for our everyday relationships andactions. These are reference points that will be added to for the development of ourshared futures in this living Charter:••••

Buen Vivir*, love and care for people and the planet, responsibilities and holistic rights**.
Respect, dignity, harmony and social justice
Diversity, belonging, reciprocity and equity
Ubuntu***, togetherness, accountability and community

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Solidarity, equality, inclusion and collaboration1.

7. Acting on these values requires us all to rethink and to challenge ourselves in every
aspect of our lives - our work, where we live, our business environments, ourrelationships with each other and our planet’s sustainability. Stemming from ourinterdependency with each other and the planet earth, we have an obligation to work
together to ensure and sustain the future of our planet for this and future generations.
Education to rebuild the relationship between nature and the planet is key to achieving
an eco-social world.
Implications for our sustainable shared futures
8. Co-developing reciprocity: When people feel valued in reciprocal relationships, they cancreate joint ownership of positive change through new structures at all levels individual, local, national, regional and global.
9. Co-building peace: People do not want war and violence in their lives. Preventing war
and violence is facilitated through the development of trust and mutual respect fordiversity. This is achieved by working with and in families, communities and countries
until everyone is confident enough to understand their own and others’ rights,
responsibilities, resources, challenges and strengths.
10. Co-living with nature: This Charter affirms that the rights of oceans, sky, rivers, animals,
plants and land are inter-linked with the rights and responsibilities of people. Respect
for the ecosystem and the regeneration of nature is essential for a balanced eco-socialworld to protect our mutual sustainability.
11. Co-creating social justice: Organic community systems have provided support between
family, friends and co-workers for generations, through promoting mutual responsibility
between people and their environments. State-funded formal social systems havelargely been created to respond to individual needs after a crisis has occurred. The
strength of organic, community-based, preventative systems should be integrated withstate systems to enhance human and planetary flourishing.
12. Co-realising equality: People are wondrously different but equal in rights. No one
should face discrimination for who they are, and everyone should have the opportunity
to develop their full capabilities and live fulfilling lives.
The pathway forward

13. The last time the major world powers came together to construct global values for apeaceful world was at the end of World War 2. It resulted in different zones of influence
1*Buen Vivir – an indigenous social movement from South America that describes a way of life and a form of development that seessocial, cultural, environmental and economic issues working together and in balance, not separately and hierarchically as at present.
** Holistic Rights recognize individual human rights, (dignity and fundamental freedoms), social human rights, (civil, economic, andpolitical), cultural rights, eco-system rights, and the broader rights of nature.
***Ubuntu – an indigenous African philosophy based on people’s interdependency and interconnectedness with their environment: ‘I ambecause we are’.

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when it was established - to create conditions for peace, development and rights ‘inlarger freedom’ - has not been achieved. This agenda is still failing as the most potent
global actors – whether large transnational corporations or the governments of major
world powers – have frustrated efforts to deliver peace, equity and sustainability for all.
Today, it is time to recognise that when people co-design and own change, throughactive involvement at local and global levels, the world can become sustainable andequitable. We resolve to continue co-creating, with people from all communities of theworld, the solutions to make the world fairer, safer and more sustainable. We invite you
all to join us in making this happen!
14. Actions we can do together: This summit has confidence in the strength andintelligence of inclusive public decision-making, leaving no one behind. We recognisethat sustainable change has resulted from mass movements where diverse populations
have worked together for common interests. We also recognise that underneath allpolitical actions are cultural templates and worldviews that need to be considered within
the framework of decision-making for our shared futures. The People’s Global Summit
has formulated five actions that are central to everyone’s lives and that recognise thestrengths and assets in all communities. These we can co-design and co-build together
through local people’s assemblies, national governments and global institutions:
Ecological integrity: From exploitation to recognising the rights of naturefor sustainable co-existence
People’s assemblies and governments, globally, nationally and locally, need toco-build new cultures that are sustainable and respectful to ecosystems andenvironments. In the transition to an eco-social world all public subsidies to thefossil-fuel industry must stop now.
Economic reform: From measuring economies by profit to sustainable
wellbeing societies
People across the globe want collective wellbeing to be the ultimate goal ofsocial development. The economy is an important factor but should not bedominant in developing a sustainable eco-social world. The United Nations,world leaders and people's assemblies must co-build new frameworks andprogress indicators that address the integration of markets and wellbeing.
International solidarity: From national introspection to global cooperation
To co-build a balanced eco-social world for our survival we need to ensure
equitable distribution of vital resources and to respect our diverse cultural andsocial roots, recognising that national interests are secondary to global fairness
and sustainability. Refugees, displaced peoples and migrants are calling now for
immediate meaningful dialogue and action with governments and international
bodies to safeguard their futures and security.
Employment and work: From being undervalued to being recognised with
dignified working conditions
Unions and social movements have called for international standards of labour,living wages, decent working conditions and valuing of the contributions of
unpaid workers on which our communities depend. This has been reinforced by
global agencies as a key method for eliminating poverty but has not yet been
implemented. Unions and social movements need to work with governments,

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public services and the business sector in implementing fair practices andagreed international standards to secure sustainable and fair markets that will
foster recognition and respect in people’s lives.
State social protection: From reactive public spending to public investment
in wellbeing
In response to the global pandemics and intersecting crises, communities andprofessionals have renewed their focus on a process of co-building social
protection systems, health, education and other social services to co-design
preventative and responsive support systems that fulfil the rights and meet theneeds of people. Governments, realising their duties and responsibilities, need tojoin and invest in this new strategy to support communities now and be better
prepared for future crises.
This People´s Global Summit will continue to promote and support local and global people´sassemblies to unlock the means to co-design and co-build a new eco-social world. Together,
we will bring our local and global expertise from working in communities and populations
where transformative change has taken place. Together we can build hope and newsystems that foster peace, confidence, and security for everyone.
This Charter is for everyone to own, a living document which can be interpreted and used inlocal contexts and cultures, while retaining its core values and aspirations.

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