In the lead-up to the UN Conference on Climate Change in Mexico next week, Green Pastures wants to look at some of the core social justice issues behind the global debate, so during the talks we can notice how and if these issues are addressed.
One big issue to emerge from Copenhagen last year was the concept of ‘climate debt’ and how responsibility will be shared between industrialised nations, who polluted the atmosphere during the development process, and developing nations, who now face the challenges caused by the effects of this pollution in addition the challenges of industrialising themselves. In other words, what do the nations who have contributed most to climate change ‘owe’ the nations who contributed least.
This concept is detailed in this very interesting report from a program called Fault Lines, following Bolivia as they deal with these challenges. If you find yourself with 23 minutes to spare, please view the program here: http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/faultlines/2010/05/2010518121127315453.html
For more information on the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth highlighted in the program, please visit the following links…
To read the Indigenous People’s Declaration, click here: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18931
To read the Bill of Rights for Mother Earth, click here: http://motherearthrights.org/2010/04/27/world-peoples-conference-on-climate-change-and-the-rights-of-mother-earth/
And for a general summary of the conference, visit here: http://www.un-ngls.org/spip.php?page=article_s&id_article=2394
This conference was an innovative answer to the global North’s domination of climate talks, bringing the debate into a different sphere more representative of the billions of people in nations which have been widely marginalised in the Climate Crisis debate.
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Let’s get ready for Cancun 2010 and send all of our good vibes to the hopes that a fair, respectful and binding agreement come out of this conference.
