It celebrates men who champion green initiatives and inspire positive change for the planet. Let's take care of the planet is an initiative aimed at promoting environmental citizenship for children and young people and engage them in debate on environmental issues and the global community achieve the UN Decade of Education and sustainable development. The international initiative originated from the experience of national conferences of Brazil conducted by the Ministry of Education, Brazil 2003 and the Excellence in 2006-2009 and through youth groups, children and the participation of countries in the topics of discussion group discussions proposed by the school communities and the selection of representatives for ideas compromise the successive stages of this methodology is a participatory, democratic and transformative. This initiative has turned into a global initiative process consisted of the International Conference on national conferences, where each country through the Ministry of Education or equivalent agency, and organizes a conference in the school and national operations. Was participating in the International Conference is voluntary. Gathering of delegations from national conferences, which was occurring at the National Conference for Children and Youth International Conference held in Brazil, Brazil, June 5 to 10, 2010. Let's take care of the planet for the Arab States, consistent with the mission and objectives of the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2015), developed by the UN General Assembly with UNESCO, as lead agency. DEFINITIONS and CONCEPTS:
β’ Children and Youth Conference: The process of participatory democracy, which include discussions on the topics proposed in the schools, and deliberations on the collective responsibilities for the care of the planet and the selections of participants for ideas compromise the successive stages: national conferences and the International Conference for each state each time hosted by the State of the States participating in the project to present and review the funeral through children and young people to apply the principle of sustainability.
β’ Responsibility: The concept defined by the Charter of Human Responsibilities, where we must assume individual and collective responsibilities commensurate with our access to knowledge and power, and engage ourselves behind our rights and duties.
β’ Charter of Responsibilities: Document consisting of responsibilities originating from the schools, which are systematic and priority in the national conference and merge finally at the International Conference of the "Charter of Responsibilities - Let's Take Care of the Planet".
