International Conference CEE, Ahmedabad, India
1 – 3 November, 2010.
The major international culminating event in this year's celebrations of the Earth Charter's 10th Anniversary. Organised by CEE India in partnership with the Earth Charter International Secretariat.
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The location of the Conference at Ahmedabad, where Mahatma Gandhi began his experiments with truth, confronting his ethical dilemmas, and evolving appropriate responses and solutions to them, lends a historical symbolism to the conference.
Gandhiji is perhaps one of the most outstanding examples of a leader who lived and worked to stringent ethical standards. His was a politics that was based on high ideals and moral principles where the means were always just as important as the ends. Gandhi succeeded in demonstrating to the common man as much as to the most decorated dignitary,
the dignity and fulfillment that flows from the integration of universal human values and principles into one's daily practice.
It is also in Gandhi's India that some of the world's largest experiments in live democratic consultation processes are being undertaken. In fact it is becoming increasingly evident that one of the most critical requirements for a truly sustainable worldis mutually respectful dialogue and consultation.

The Conference will be held at the Centre for Environment Education (CEE). The Centre is located on the 14-acre green campus of the Nehru Foundation for Development. The area, almost devoid of trees in the early sixties, is now home to more than 1557 trees representing some 50 different species. The green canopy is host to more than 97 species of birds, in addition to mammals, reptiles and insects.
CEE lies within 15 kms from the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel international airport and the Ahmedabad Junction railway station. Taxis and auto rickshaws are available from the airport and the railway station for travel within the city