Speech by Elizabeth Peredo Beltran, Director of Bolivia’s Solon Foundation, to the closing session of the Cochabamba+1 Conference in Montreal, April 17, 2011 (more…)
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Bolivia: Cancún must not be Can't-cún
Against these powerful interests, Bolivia believes the only way forward for saving the Earth and its people is mass popular pressure (more…)
Most Canadians Support Climate Justice Now
Poll finds strong support across Canada for the Cochabamba Agenda … but the government is ignoring public opinion and supporting environmental destruction. Only mass action for climate justice can win the changes that are urgently needed now (more…)
Toronto Teach-In Discusses Cochabamba Agenda for Climate Justice
Actvists discuss concepts far removed from the usual media babble about cap-and-trade and carbon offsets – ideas that are unfamiliar to many on the left (more…)
Responding to the Cochabamba challenge
Some 125 people took part in the teach-in Lessons from Bolivia: Building a Global Movement for Climate Justice in Toronto on Saturday November 13. The meeting was sponsored by nearly 40 organizations, including unions, solidarity campaigns and environmental groups. The following is the text (lightly edited) of the talk given by Climate and Capitalism editor […]
ALBA Countries Meet in Bolivia to Defend Rights of Mother Earth
Meeting will develop plan for joint action, continuing cooperation (more…)
Bring Cochabamba to Cancun!
A call from Canadian based NGO’s, community groups and individuals to join the growing global movement for climate justice in Cancun Nov 27- Dec 10th. (more…)
What next for ecosocialists?
The Ecosocialist International Network will meet in Paris, Sept. 26-27, to discuss its future and the way forward for ecosocialism. This article is a contribution to that discussion (more…)
Comparison of the People’s Agreement and the Copenhagen Accord
The Copenhagen Accord represents a step backward with relation to the Kyoto Protocol by proposing a methodology of voluntary commitments for the industrialized countries that are principally responsible for climate change. (more…)
From Water Wars to the Fight for Climate Justice: Pablo Solón on the Lessons of Cochabamba
A Speech by Pablo Solón, Bolivia’s UN ambassador, to the Shout Out for Global Justice, attended by nearly 3,000 people on June 25 in Toronto. Video of the event, which was sponsored by the Council of Canadians, can be viewed at rabbletv. (more…)
A Mistaken Criticism of Cochabamba
International Viewpoint, the “English-language magazine of the Fourth International,” recently published a criticism of the Peoples Agreement adopted by the World People’s Conference on Climate Change held in Cochabamba, Bolivia in April. This article, by Australian Socialist Alliance member Ben Courtice, responds to those criticisms: we encourage C&C readers to add their comments on this […]
Failure and fraud at UN climate talks
Bonn meeting opts for inadequate voluntary targets, big loopholes, and market scams (more…)
Video: Vancouver's Cochabamba Report Back Meeting
Videos from the June 10, 2010 report back meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia, organized by Canada-Bolivia Solidarity Committee (more…)
Interview: Indo-American Bolivarian Ecosocialism
“‘Bolivarian ecosocialism’ is a term that is synonymous with 21st Century Socialism. This socialism is ours, endogenous, and is based on transforming collective consciousness to establish new relationships within society and with the environment.” (more…)
"We demand the enforcement of the payment of climate debt"
Document approved by the working group on Climate Debt, during the World Conference of Peoples on Climate Change and the Rights of mother Earth, Bolivia, April 2010 (more…)
Video: Toronto Meeting on Cochabamba
Videos of the talks and entertainment at the Cochabamba Report Back Meeting held in Toronto, May 7. (more…)
Evo Morales: United, the developing countries can save the world
“The response to global warming is global democracy for life and for the Mother Earth.. … we have two paths: to save capitalism, or to save life and Mother Earth.” —Speech by Evo Morales a, President of Bolivia, to the G77 + China at the United Nations, May 7, 2010 (more…)
Canadian delegate: Cochabamba shows that another way is possible and necessary
A talk given at the Cochabamba Report Back Meeting in Toronto, on May 7, by Kimia Ghomeshi of the Canadian Youth Climate Coalition (more…)
We are NOT "all in this together"
The concept of climate debt rests on the fact that no solution to climate change is possible unless it also guarantees justice and social equality (more…)
Indigenous network supports Cochabamba Agreement
Statement by Tom Goldtooth of the the Indigenous Environmental Network, supporting Bolivia’s submission of the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth to the UN (more…)