UNESCO - HydroEX

Help secure a safe and sustainable future for all by fostering a shift in values and cultivating a new sense of global interdependence and shared responsibility in humanity's relationship with nature; respond to the combined challenges of security, poverty and environmental degradation; seek solutions through dialogue, meditation and cooperation; promote legal, ethical and behavioural norms that ensure basic changes in the values, actions and attitudes of governments, the private sector and civil society, necessary to develop a sustainable global community; contribute to the prevention and resolution of conflicts arising from environmental degradation; provide assistance to people affected by the environmental consequences of wars, conflicts and man-made calamities.