WE ARE NO DEBTORS!  WE ARE CREDITORS OF A HISTORICAL, SOCIAL  AND ECOLOGICAL DEBT!
RECOGNITION AND INTEGRAL REPARATION OF THE ECOLOGICAL DEBT DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGE
Wednesday, 09 December 2009

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INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT

FOR THE RECOGNITION AND INTEGRAL REPARATION OF THE ECOLOGICAL DEBT DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGE
WITHIN THE AGREEMENTS REACHED IN COPENHAGEN

 The Southern People´s Ecological Debt Creditors Alliance supports the demand of Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Venezuela, Honduras, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Panama, Guatemala, Cuba, Belize, Dominica, St. Vincent & The Grenadines, Antigua and Barbados, Sri Lanka and Malaysia, for the RECOGNITION AND INTEGRAL REPARATION OF THE ECOLOGICAL DEBT DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGE THAT IS OWED TO COUNTRIES IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH BY COUNTRIES IN THE GLOBAL NORTH, within international agreements of the 15th United Nations Framework Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen, Denmark (COP15).
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STATEMENT of Mr. OSCAR RIVAS Minister of the Environment of PARAGUAY
Saturday, 24 October 2009

New York, 22 September 2009

Mr. President, excellencies, Heads of State, distinguished colleagues, ministers, ladies and gentlemen, leaders of our Planet:

Developing nations are facing a threat of catastrophic proportions today: climate change. The peoples of the south are today paying for the ever increasing additional costs of the necessary actions to adapt to the adverse conditions posed by climate change and for the mitigation of its consequences.

However, those States principally responsible of the direct causes of global warming, are not assuming their responsibility for the incremental social and environmental debt they are accumulating, owed to the most vulnerable peoples of the world, generating an unjust situation that need to be urgently reversed.

In Paraguay, the recurrent droughts we suffered during the last decade, required, over the last 3 years, spending of some additional US$70 million per year, which we are mostly absorbing on our own, communities and Government, though we appreciate the support received in solidarity from our friends, nations and organizations. In the meantime, we are exposed more and more frequently to powerful storms which cause grave damages to our crops and livelihoods of those most vulnerable.

Food production and water supply are held at high risk. In the whole of Paraguay, in fact, the succession of extreme events derived from severe alterations in the climatic patterns, generate a social and environmental emergency scenario, every time more frequent and prolonged. We recognize that changes in the climate are the result of patterns of production, distribution and consumption, based on the exhaustive exploitation of nature's wealth.

This unsustainable model considers nature and the commons such as water, air, land, forests, seeds, as mere resources available for sheer exploitation and privatization. The struggle against climate change is not only a struggle for the survival of our Planet, it is also a struggle for socio-environmental justice at the global level. The financial, social and environmental costs of the climatic emergencies we face, increase exponentially in direct proportion to the unmet commitments of developed countries.

The latest scientific reports available do not only indicate that the expenses for adaptation will be much higher to what was earlier forecasted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) only two years ago. They also tell us that atmospheric warming has determined that on our Earth, high levels of insecurity are being reached. By not accomplishing their reduction targets to avoid climate change, industrialized countries not only negate the mandate of the Convention, but also go counter basic principles of international law, such as the responsibility for not causing damages to the territories of other States.


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EVO MORALES to the AWG-LCA under the UNFCCC
Wednesday, 29 April 2009

Submission by *Republic of Bolivia *to the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the [UN Framework Convention on Climate Change] (AWG-LCA) evo_unfccc

The climate debt of developed countries must be repaid, and this payment must begin with the outcomes to be agreed in Copenhagen. Developing countries are not seeking economic handouts to solve a problem we did not cause. What we call for is full payment of the debt owed to us by developed countries for threatening the integrity of the Earth’s climate system, for over-consuming a shared resource that belongs fairly and equally to all people, and for maintaining lifestyles that continue to threaten the lives and livelihoods of the poor majority of the planet’s population. This debt must be repaid by freeing up environmental space for developing countries and particular the poorest communities.

There is no viable solution to climate change that is effective without being equitable. Deep emission reductions by developed countries are a necessary condition for stabilising the Earth’s climate. So too are profoundly larger transfers of technologies and financial resources than so far considered, if emissions are to be curbed in developing countries and they are also to realise their right to development and achieve their overriding priorities of poverty eradication and economic and social development. Any solution that does not ensure an equitable distribution of the Earth’s limited capacity to absorb greenhouse gases, as well as the costs of mitigating and adapting to climate change, is destined to fail.

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REGION - ALBA Document at the Summit of the Americas
Monday, 27 April 2009
*The Declaration of Cumaná* Apr 21 2009 ALBA Cumaná, Venezuela We, the Heads of State and Government of Bolivia, Cuba, Dominica, Honduras, Nicaragua and Venezuela, member countries of ALBA, consider that the Draft Declaration of the 5th Summit of the Americas is insufficient and unacceptable for the following reasons: - The Declaration does not provide answers to the Global Economic Crisis, even though this crisis constitutes the greatest challenge faced by humanity in the last decades and is the most serious threat of the current times to the welfare of our peoples. - The Declaration unfairly excludes Cuba, without mentioning the consensus in the region condemning the blockade and isolation to which the people and the government of Cuba have incessantly been exposed in a criminal manner. For this reason, we, the member countries of ALBA believe that there is no consensus for the adoption of this draft declaration because of the reasons above stated, and accordingly, we propose to hold a thorough debate on the following topics:
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