#COP22 Renewed My Hope for Our Earth

As a laureate of the French Ministry of Environment’s 100 Projects for the Climate, I was invited to participate in the first meeting of the new global consortium 4 per 1000 during COP22, along with other signatories from 34 nations.

Regeneration International’s team became allies during COP22.

As botanical and environmental artist, envisioning future art exhibits to tell the story of the rainforest of my birth, I created a fabric banner for the first physical meeting of the 4 per 1000 consortium, collecting handwritten signatures. You’ll find the entire text of the actual Declaration of Intention for 4 per 1000 on my blog.

The results of the event and the beauty of the banner both exceeded my expectations and renewed my hope for our Earth.

Meet a few of the people who left their mark…

Stéphane Le Foll — Minister of Agriculture, France

DOSSO née KONE Bassiné — Technical Advisor for Communication and Agricultural Promotion, Ivory Coast

Mamadou Sangafowa Coulibaly — Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Ivory Coast

Tabaré Aguerre — Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Uruguay

Walter Oyhantçabal— Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries, Uruguay

Paula Triviño — Tarradas-Project Manager at the European Conservation Agriculture Federation, Spain

Professor Lhoussaïne Elrhaffari — R&D Services et Produits de Terroirs et des écosystèmes, Morocco

Suzanne Lutfalla — Scientific Officer of the International Research Program 4 per 1000 Soils for Food Security and Climate

Gabrielle Bastien — Director Soil4Climate, Canada

Joanne Schanté — Open Team co-founder, France

John Dennis Liu — Environmental educator and documentary filmmaker “Hope in a Changing Climate,” China

Serene Liu — Assistant Researcher at Environmental Education Media Project for China

Alana Lea with Griffen Klement — Regeneration International, Open Team and Scale Camp participants at COP22

Andy Lipkis — Founder of TreePeople, Los Angeles, USA

Margie Bushman — President of Santa Barbara Permaculture Network, USA

Samuel Michel — co-Chief Executive Officer AAE-Ass.Amis Des Enfants, Haiti

John Roulac — Founder of Nutiva & Supporter of Sustainable Agriculture

Caroline MacDougall — Founder of Teeccino & Supporter of Sustainable Agriculture

Other signers of the commemorative banner include Isabel García Tejerina — Minister of Agriculture for Spain, Mark Sinclair — Climate Change Ambassador for New Zealand, Embassy of the Earth, Netherlands Centre for Indigenous Peoples, The Hopi Raincatchers, Regeneration International, Shubhendu Sharma, Paul Hawken, and many more…

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