The official launch of the Earth Charter at the Peace Palace in The Hague on June 29, 2000 began the mission to establish a sound ethical foundation for the emerging global society and to help build a sustainable world based on respect for nature, universal human rights, economic justice and a culture of peace.

In the Earth Charter Campaign: Promoting a Peoples Earth Charter for the 21st Century and beyond Ecoropean Christine von Weizsäcker was instrumental in turning the Earth Charter it into a people’s document.