{"id":4299,"date":"2015-10-18T17:58:18","date_gmt":"2015-10-18T21:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=4299"},"modified":"2026-02-02T15:52:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T14:52:24","slug":"bolivia-ecuador-venezuela-agree-to-defend-mother-earth-at-cop21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=4299","title":{"rendered":"Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela Agree to Defend Mother Earth at COP21"},"content":{"rendered":"
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. . SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT . .<\/p>\n

An article from the Latin American Herald Tribune<\/a><\/p>\n

The presidents of Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela agreed to speak for \u201cPachamama,\u201d or Mother Earth, and civil society at the 21st United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP21, in Paris this December.<\/p>\n

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\nPresidents Correa, Morales and Maduro. Foto: ABI<\/center><\/p>\n

Bolivian President Evo Morales, along with Rafael Correa and Nicolas Maduro, his counterparts from Ecuador and Venezuela, respectively, emphasized on Monday the role of society in defending the environment, at the closing of the II World People\u2019s Conference on Climate Change in Bolivia\u2019s Cochabamba.<\/p>\n

The three-day forum, during which social organizations, trade unions and indigenous groups from several countries met to discuss climate issues, concluded with a series of proposals, which the presidents assured will be presented at the Paris summit.<\/p>\n

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon also attended the first two days of the conference and was optimistic about a sound and credible global agreement on climate change at COP21.<\/p>\n

Civil society representatives proposed the creation of an environmental justice court, recognition of indigenous ancestral knowledge, and demanded developed countries should recognize their climate debt as a legal and moral obligation.<\/p>\n

Correa advocated applying the so-called \u201cenvironmental justice\u201d as a solution to climate change, so the \u201cmost polluting countries recognize the damage\u201d they have caused in other nations through exploitation of natural resources and pollution.<\/p>\n

He also suggested technology and know-how to fight climate change should be declared \u201cglobal public assets\u201d to ensure all countries have free access to them, and stressed the need for a \u201cUniversal Declaration of Nature\u2019s Rights.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOur peoples are wise, they know exactly what they want, and what the path to follow is,\u201d Morales said, expressing confidence in ancestral knowledge of indigenous people.<\/p>\n

While Maduro made a call for being alert against \u201ccheating\u201d during the Paris climate summit, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez warned, his country won\u2019t accept any new agreement that dilutes rich and developed nations\u2019 existing obligations.<\/p>\n

Rodriguez also demanded rich countries provide financial aid as well as clean and green technologies to help fight climate change.<\/p>\n

Other notable figures who participated in the forum included the 1980 Nobel Peace laureate from Argentina, Adolfo Perez Esquivel; former Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzon and Spanish MEP Estefania Torres, representing the European United Left group.<\/p>\n

(Click here for an article in Spanish<\/a> on this subject.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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