1. A "polycrisis". We must face a conjunction of global crises unprecedented in history: exhaustion of natural resources, irreversible destruction of biodiversity, disruption of the global financial system, dehumanisation of the international economy, famines and shortages, viral pandemics, political disintegration… None of these phenomena can be considered in isolation: they form a single "polycrisis" threatening the world with a "polycatastrophe".
2. Recognising our interdependencies. As these great crises are global, men and women throughout the world must recognise their multiple interdependencies (between continents, nations, individuals). None of our States, nor any international institution, is today able to enforce a world order and impose the essential regulations.
3. Rethinking international legal principles. To establish a global governance worthy of the name, international law must be transformed into a common law of humanity by rethinking sovereignty (towards a shared sovereignty), territorial jurisdiction, and international security.
4. Affirming a new principle — that of planetary intersolidarity, preserving diversity in a spirit of tolerance and pluralism.
5. Taking three emergency measures: the effective eradication of tax havens; the separation of deposit banks and speculative investment banks; the taxation of financial transactions.
6. Relaunching the fundamental negotiations on safeguarding the biosphere, eliminating weapons of mass destruction, and controlling nuclear energy.
7. Respecting four permanent conditions, in particular recognising that the possession of a global power — economic, scientific, media, religious or cultural — implies the corollary of a global responsibility.
Call. We therefore call for the creation of a political crucible where the best interests of humanity can be concretely defined. We call on the representatives of States to press the United Nations General Assembly towards the adoption of a "Universal Declaration of Interdependence". We call, in short, for a return to the pioneering spirit of the Charter of the United Nations, which proclaimed "We, the peoples…"
Signatories, members of the Collegium International: Edgar Morin, Michel Rocard, Mireille Delmas-Marty, Richard von Weizsäcker, Milan Kučan, Stéphane Hessel, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, René Passet, Peter Sloterdijk, Bernard Miyet, Patrick Viveret, Ahmedou Ould Abdallah, Ruth Dreifuss, William vanden Heuvel, Michael W. Doyle, Ricardo Lagos.