Bolivian organizations are denouncing the attempts to exclude indigenous communities from the global decisions. The Trade Union Confederation of Bolivian Peasant Workers, member of Via Campesina, publicly denounces that in the preparations to the summit in Cancun, the conclusions of the World Peoples Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth held in Cochabamba, Bolivia, are not being taken into account.

“We reject the official negotiation text of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change that excludes the resolutions of the World Peoples´ Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, and instead includes the Copenhagen Accord, that doesn´t even have the consensus of the United Nations”, they state.

Last April, thousands of delegates from around the world, including government representatives, met in Cochabamba, and as a result the Bolivian Government submitted the Peoples Agreement to the United Nations.

This document states that capitalism is the main cause of climate change, rejects the Copenhagen Accord and highlights that industrialized countries have a climate debt they need to pay with transfer of technology and funds to the Global South.

The proposed Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth highlights its right to be respected, the protection of its biocapacity and vital processes free from human alteration, free from pollution, toxic and radioactive waste and free from genetic modification.

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