Almost seventy years later, global social organizations agree on the fact that corporations accused of environmental crimes and the disappearance of entire populations have to be tried by binding organizations.

This is what Ricardo Navarro, of Cesta-Friends of the Earth El Salvador and one of the members of the First Hearing of the Climate Justice International Tribunal, told Real World Radio. The Tribunal was held a week ago in Cochabamba, Bolivia, establishing moral sentences to companies.

Particularly, seven denunciations on the impacts of climate change and violations of rights in “communities, populations and Mother Earth” were filed, although the idea of the organizers was that these situations be heard by tribunals of international organizations, like the United Nations.

Navarro also made reference to the cases filed in Cochabamba which made an impression on him the most, such as the case of a Bolivian community which depends on a system of mountain glaciers which are melting due to the rise of greenhouse gases. “They are asked to adapt, but how can one do that without water?”, said the Salvadoran expert.

He believes that these excesses, the destruction of populations and territories, the imposition of profit as a paradigm and false solutions to climate change are leading human beings to some kind of “collective suicide”. “Nature has rules and they have to be respected, that should be a global command”, he suggested.

Photo: Radio Mundo Real