World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth
How Bolivia is leading the global fight against climate disaster
A women in Bolivia views a melting glacier's water.
Cuando el árbol del “antiextractivismo” no deja ver el bosque
Miles de pueblos indígenas dirigidos por la CONAIE (Confederación de Nacionalidades Ind
South America: How ‘anti-extractivism’ misses the forest for the trees
Thousands of indigenous peoples led by CONAIE (Confederation of Indigenous Nationalitie
The myth of ‘environmental catastrophism’
[Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal urges its rea
[For more on Evo Morales and Bolivia, click HERE.]
January 15, 2013 -- Climate and Capitalism/Life on the Left, posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal with permission -- On December 21, 2012, at a solstice celebration in Lake Titicaca, high in the Andes, Bolivia's president Evo Morales introduced the Manifesto of Isla del Sol. His talk, translated below, includes the full text of the manifesto.
Video: Pablo Solon on what’s next after Rio+20
June 26, 2012 -- Pablo Solon, former climate change negotiator for Bolivia and now head of Focus on
Bolivia's proposals on the 'rights of nature' for Rio+20
December 19, 2011 -- The proposals developed by the Plurinational State of Bolivia bring together and build upon the progress made in the World Charter for Nature (1982), the Rio Declaration (1992), the Earth Charter (2000) and the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth (2010).
[The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) is scheduled for June 20-22, 2012, in Brazil. It marks the 20th anniversary of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), in Rio de Janeiro, and the 10th anniversary of the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg.]
I. A DEEPER COMMITMENT TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Τι μπορεί να αναμένεται από τις συνομιλίες του Ντάρμπαν;
Νίμο Μπάσεϊ. Photo: Right Livelihood Award Foundation.
