Many Climate Activist stars and even some Film and Hollywood stars join concerned people and politicians at Bolivia’s global warming summit.
It shaped to be the best place to organize against Climate warming and also the ”coolest” place on earth to be these days due to the nexus of great people partaking in the Conference workshops and break away talks and group meetings.
The all important declaration will be broadcast on Earth Day the 22nd of April.
Evo Morales says this WPCCC Conference talks give a voice to the world’s poorest people and encourage governments to be ambitious for an honest Climate deal after Copenhagen’s failures.
In what is becoming the hippest environment meeting of the year, presidents, politicians, intellectuals, scientists and Hollywood stars will join more than 15,000 indigenous people and thousands of grass roots groups from more than 100 countries to debate climate change in one of the world’s poorest nations and to reach a consensus Declaration.
This in turn will stimulate a global referendum with more than two billion people voting.
The World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth summit this week in Bolivia’s highland city of Cochabamba, will have a direct bearing on the UN climate talks being conducted by 192 governments.
Bolivian President Evo Morales says it will help people express themselves widely and give a voice to the poorest people of the world and encourage governments to be far more ambitious in reaching a fair Climate deal in Mexico, following the failure of the Copenhagen summit in COP15.
Morales used the meeting to announce the world’s largest referendum, with up to 2 billion people being asked to vote on ways out of the climate crisis. Bolivia also wants to create a UN charter of rights and to draft an action plan to set up an international climate justice tribunal.
The only way to get climate negotiations back on track not just for Bolivia or other countries, but for all of life, biodiversity, our Mother Earth and the people’s planet; is to put civil society back into the process.
”The only thing that can save mankind from a climate tragedy is the exercise of global democracy,” said Bolivia’s United Nations Ambassador Pablo Solon, at the end of the latest UN talks.
“In Cochabamba there are no secret discussions behind closed doors. The debate and the proposals are led by communities on the frontlines of climate change and by organisations and individuals from civil society dedicated to tackling the climate crisis,” he said.
More than 90 governments are represented with delegations to Cochabamba. And more than 120 countries are represented through organizations.
Also attending along with Yours truly, are star scientists such as James Hansen, Film Director James Cameron [of Avatar], Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein of Canada, Democracy Now News, Amy Goodman, many NGOs, masses of civil service society groups, globalisation activists, Environmental parliament delegates and speakers, Green Politicians, Earth Scientists, José Bové, and even actors Danny Glover, Robert Redford and Susan Sarandon.
The meetings coincide with the famous celebrations of the Cochabamba “water war” of 2000 when a revolt against the privatisation of water in the city acted as an inspiration for social movements across Latin America and led directly to the election of Evo Morales as Bolivia’s president.
The water wars were won by the people and water resources privatizations stopped all together in Latin America… and will be stopped all over the world through the strength of the Social Movements.
“We hope that this conference will help shift power back to the people, which is where it needs to be on this critical issue for all humanity. We don’t expect agreement on everything, but at least we can start to discuss openly and sincerely in a way that didn’t happen in Copenhagen,” said UN ambassador Pablo Solón.
The World People’s Conference is really moving things forward.
Follow us by means of the http://envivo.cmpcc.org.bo website and participate and come celebrate with us.
The second case the Environmental Court shall hear is the one brought about the disappearance of the Andean Glaciers and it’s attendant economic effects.
The first one being the case of the people of Vietnam vs China’s policy of water damming and diversion of the Mekong river water flows upstream towards Beijing.
Yours,
Pano
PS:
Having spoken at the two main forums on Climate Justice and then officiated at the inauguration of the Environmental Court, we are grateful because we received tremendous support from the participants and the delegates in the World People’s Conference on Climate Change.
And to cheer up all of our supporters, we now invite all speakers, delegates and participants of the Cochabamba Climate talks, to join us for the Environmental Parliament celebration at the Theatre Acha in Prado [between Espana street and Heroinas Avenue at 8.30 pm] in the beautiful centre of Cochabamba.
Join the party for the Environmental Court Christening with plenty of music, wine, food and celebrations for all.
We promise ”No long speeches” by anyone.
And music and free wine till the morning.
Cheers
