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"The Most Important Event in the Struggle Against Climate Change" - Nigerian Environmentalist Nnimmo Bassey on Bolivia Climate Conference

Among those who spoke at the inauguration ceremony for the World Peoples’ Climate Conference was Nnimmo Bassey, the prominent Nigerian environmentalist and chair of Friends of the Earth International. By contrast, at the UN climate summit in Copenhagen in December, his group, along with several other mainstream environmental organizations, was barred from the talks. "Here you get a real sense that government wants to speak to people,"...
Apr 21, 2010 | Story
"The World Is Changing in a More Progressive Way, and It's Taking Place Here" - Boaventura de Sousa Santos on Bolivia Climate Summit

Among the thousands of participants at the World Peoples’ Climate Conference in Cochabamba is Boaventura de Sousa Santos, an internationally respected scholar and one of the leading organizers of the World Social Forum. He is a professor of sociology at the University of Coimbra in Portugal and a distinguished legal scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. [includes rush transcript]
Apr 21, 2010 | Story
Why Is the US Cutting Off Climate Aid to the Poorest Country in South America? - Bolivian Climate Negotiator Angélica Navarro

The Obama administration has confirmed it’s denying climate aid to at least two countries that refused to sign onto last year’s Copenhagen environmental accord. The State Department has canceled funding of $3 million to Bolivia and $2.5 million to Ecuador. The funding was canceled at a time when Bolivia is losing its glaciers and suffering mass drought due to climate change. Bolivia’s lead climate negotiator Angélica Navarro calls on...
Apr 21, 2010 | Story
Bolivian Indigenous Activists Call for End to Polluting Extractive Industries Inside Bolivia

As the World Peoples’ Summit on Climate Change gets underway in Tiquipaya, an estimated 700 indigenous activists are continuing their occupation of a mining firm in the southeastern Bolivian province of Potosi. The Qulla people have blocked access to a key railway line from the San Cristóbal silver-zinc-lead mine owned by Japan’s Sumitomo Corporation. They say Sumitomo is contaminating their land and water with mine waste. We speak...
Apr 21, 2010 | Story
Bolivian Indigenous Activist: We Must Respect Mother Earth, Our Pachamama

On Monday, the top US climate negotiator, Todd Stern, admitted that a binding agreement on curbing greenhouse gas emissions may not even be possible at the next UN climate summit scheduled for December in Cancun. Stern’s comments came after the US took part in the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate in Washington. While the United States and other nations met behind closed doors on Monday, a very different climate summit began here...
Apr 20, 2010 | Story
As Protests Mount Against San Cristóbal Silver Mine, Bolivia Looks to Extract Massive Lithium Reserves, But at What Cost?

We look at why Bolivian miners have staged a major protest at the San Cristóbal mine, one of the world’s largest silver mines. We speak to journalist Jean Friedman-Rudovsky about the protest and about lithium, one of the most important new energy sources. Bolivia’s lithium reserves are estimated to be the largest in the world. [includes rush transcript]
Apr 20, 2010 | Story
Actress Q'orianka Kilcher on Climate Change Activism: Public Figures and Celebrities "Have a Responsibility to Help Give a Voice to the Voiceless"

Thousands of indigenous groups, grassroots activists and environmentalists began streaming into the World Peoples’ Summit on Climate Change and Rights of Mother Earth in Tiquipaya, Bolivia on Monday. Among them was the award-winning young Hollywood actress Q’orianka Kilcher. "I really believe and I love the saying that there comes a time when silence is betrayal," Kilcher says. "As public figures and as celebrities, we have...
Apr 20, 2010 | Story
Pat Mooney on the Dangers of Geoengineering and Manipulating the Planet to Combat Climate Change

Supporters of geoengineering have proposed radical ways to alter the planet to decrease the level of greenhouse gas emissions. Proposals include creating artificial volcanoes to pollute the atmosphere with sulfur particles, fertilizing the oceans and placing sun-deflecting aluminum foil in the sky. But opposition is growing to geoengineering. Here at the World Peoples’ Summit on Climate Change in Bolivia, the ETC Group is launching an international...
Apr 20, 2010 | Story
Jim Shultz on "Dignity and Defiance: Stories from Bolivia's Challenge to Globalization"

Jim Shultz, founder of the Cochabamba-based Democracy Center, gives a snapshot of Bolivia ahead of the World Peoples’ Summit on Climate Change and Rights of Mother Earth. Ten years ago, Shultz helped expose the role of Bechtel in the privatization of Cochabamba’s water supply. [includes rush transcript]
Apr 19, 2010 | Story
Bolivian UN Ambassador Pablo Solon on the World Peoples' Summit on Climate Change and Rights of Mother Earth

Today marks the start of the World Peoples’ Summit on Climate Change and Rights of Mother Earth here in Tiquipaya. Bolivian President Evo Morales called for the gathering to give the poor and the Global South an opportunity to respond to the failed climate talks in Copenhagen. We are joined now by Pablo Solon, Bolivia’s ambassador to the United Nations. Prior to his role in the government, Solon was a social activist who worked for...
Apr 19, 2010 | Story

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World Peoples' Summit on Climate Change Topics

"The Most Important Event in the Struggle Against Climate Change" - Nigerian Environmentalist Nnimmo Bassey on Bolivia Climate Conference

"The World Is Changing in a More Progressive Way, and It's Taking Place Here" - Boaventura de Sousa Santos on Bolivia Climate Summit

Why Is the US Cutting Off Climate Aid to the Poorest Country in South America? - Bolivian Climate Negotiator Angélica Navarro

Bolivian Indigenous Activists Call for End to Polluting Extractive Industries Inside Bolivia

Bolivian Indigenous Activist: We Must Respect Mother Earth, Our Pachamama

As Protests Mount Against San Cristóbal Silver Mine, Bolivia Looks to Extract Massive Lithium Reserves, But at What Cost?

Actress Q'orianka Kilcher on Climate Change Activism: Public Figures and Celebrities "Have a Responsibility to Help Give a Voice to the Voiceless"

Pat Mooney on the Dangers of Geoengineering and Manipulating the Planet to Combat Climate Change

Jim Shultz on "Dignity and Defiance: Stories from Bolivia's Challenge to Globalization"

Bolivian UN Ambassador Pablo Solon on the World Peoples' Summit on Climate Change and Rights of Mother Earth

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