The major principles of the pact are drawn from international law, science, philosophy, religion, recent United Nations summit meetings and an international dialogue on globalethics generated at the conference and elsewhere.
As Director of the Division of Ethics of Science and Technology of UNESCO from 2003 to 2010, I have seen a growing demand in this area starting with the governments themselves, since it was at the initiative of UNESCO Member States that a globalEthics Education Program was created in 2004.
My many initiatives and collaborations encompass innovative educational outreach approaches to art and zoological history, ecological anthropology and aesthetics, the history of ideas, exploration, environmental psychology, comparative literature, philosophy and ethics, global biodiversity field research, systematics, deep demography and animal rights.