The Intercivil Society is a civic leadership network for human security and cooperation between people as equal members of the one human family. The Intercivil Society will do what it can:

• to get nature back as our friend for life, as this is the "defining challenge of our time"¹,
• to stop fighting between members and groups of members of the one human family and
• to make extreme poverty history against the odds of climate change and conflicts.

The Intercivil Society follows the Human Family Principles as the value base of its work.

"The choice of the [2007 Nobel Peace Prize] Panel � is � an acknowledgement of � the threats to stability and human security inherent in the impacts of a changing climate and, therefore, the need for developing an effective rationale for timely and adequate action to avoid such threats in the future."²

The Intercivil Society is engaging people from any part of our planet for developing together this effective rationale for timely and adequate action. Where states and intergovernmental institutions will be able to take timely and adequate action, the Society will complement and assist their work through civic talent and cooperation. Where actions of states and their institutions would be delayed or inadequate, and raising in this way the likelihood of disastrous consequences of climate change to the existence of our human civilization, the Intercivil Society will facilitate civic communication, cooperation and leadership for timely and adequate action.

Among other projects, The Intercivil Society will set up Good Climate Clubs first at hotspots of life threatening 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.

Members of the Intercivil Society, in implementing the Human Family Principles, will:

• Use climate challenge, a common challenge to all, as an instrument of peace making;
• Understand their 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 they 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 their time or talent on blaming others for not doing enough or doing the wrong thing. They will focus only on the task ahead and will do no less.