Excerpt of Foreword by Kofi Annan: “Ten years have passed since a group of young editors published the original Rescue Mission: Planet Earth—a children’s version of Agenda 21. Agenda 21 is the blueprint for sustainable development adopted at the ‘Earth Summit’ in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. Rescue Mission was a wake-up call to ‘stop senseless wars’ and ‘end the pollution of our beautiful planet’. It was a call for ‘politicians to make the decisions they should have made long, long ago’. […] Rescue Mission 2002 reflects Peace Child’s strong commitment to that quest. I congratulate the young people who took part in this work”