Meeting of the Working group Biodiversity of the Forums Umwelt und Entwicklung.

Christine von Weizsäcker participated in strategy meeting on the issue of "Systemic Pesticides".

Establishment of Gerard Morgan-Grenvilles Center for Alternative Technology as Ecoropa's UK Branch, registered in England [1548869]

Ecoropa supports the Request to the International Court of Environmental Arbitration and Conciliation for a Dictamen on the Possible Contradictions between TRIPS and the Convention on Biological Diversity by the Spanish environmental NGO Ecologistas en Acción in cooperation between Isabel Bermejo and Christine von Weizsäcker.

Outcome of Request for a Dictamen TRIPS versus CBD at the International Court of Environmental Arbitration and Reconciliation (in reaction to Ecoropa’s Letter in 2000)

Christine von Weizsäcker participates in the Anti-Nuclear Demonstration with Pakistani and Indian activists in Islamabad. ECOROPA signes the Statement for Nuclear Disarmament by participants of the Second Annual Sustainable Development Conference, Islamabad

Participation of ECROPA members at the UNCED

ECOROPA participation at the Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly in Prague

Action against the European Directive on Biotechnological Inventions, in which hundreds of public figures, amongst them many Ecoropeans, signed and financed a 1- page advertisement in the German weekly newspaper Die Zeit against "Patents on Life". The action was initiated and coordinated by Christine von Weizsäcker

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.