10 basic requirements for launching Good Climate Clubs:

   1. Creative thinking, hard work and good fun;
   2. Clubs adopt the Human Family Principles and display them on their premises;
   3. Club members accept these Principles and implement them;
   4. Clubs need to be businesses but they might start with initial sponsorship;
   5. Club members become part-owners with responsibility for successful management;
   6. Always in a central place and in partnership with local government, where possible;
   7. Standard appearance, colours, shape but adapted to local culture and laws;
   8. Engage local ICLS alumni (see www.intercivilization.net) and other networks;
   9. Communication and exchange system between students, artists, journalists, experts;
   10. Shared webpage on www.intercivil.net (both in English and in local languages).

You will set up Good Climate Clubs first at hot spots of climate challenges, and of conflicts between people. 'Good climate' is a dual objective of improving the natural climate and the local social one. Good Climate Clubs will be the local catalysers for civic initiatives in service of good climate in its dual meaning. Good Climate Clubs will be globally connected and will act together where planetary civic cooperation or leadership will be required. The Clubs will help the rise of a new generation of real-time leadership based on the personal examples of Mohandas Gandhi and Nelson Mandela. They will know each other and work together locally and world-wide.

Your Good Climate Club will put in the core of intercultural cooperation the expected imminent local, regional and global consequences of climate change, perceived not as threats but as common challenges that enable and urge people of otherwise different or conflicting interests to work together for shared interests and values. This process of cooperation will create trust and mutual respect.


When implementing the Human Family Principles, you will:

• Use climate challenge, a common challenge to all, as an instrument of peace making;
• Understand your work for intercultural cooperation and for the prevention of violent conflicts as a significant part of the adaptation to, and mitigation of, the foreseeable local consequences of climate change;
• Work as a partner with any person and entity, be it local, national or international, public, private or civic, toward timely and adequate action to avoid the threats inherent in the impacts of a changing climate;
• Do what you can that this planetary emergency shall be tackled under a globally proportionate and participatory leadership and that it shall not provide an excuse in the name of emergency to suppress people�s freedom to govern themselves and address common challenges;
• Not spend your time or talent on blaming others for not doing enough or doing the wrong thing. You will focus only on the task ahead and will do no less.