WE ARE NO DEBTORS!  WE ARE CREDITORS OF A HISTORICAL, SOCIAL  AND ECOLOGICAL DEBT!
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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ECUADOR - FINAL REPORT INTERNAL AUDITING COMMISSON FOR PUBLIC CREDIT
Friday, 05 December 2008

The incalculable damage caused to the country's economy and the people of Ecuador by public borrowing, omnipresent as a pressure-submission system, and the consequent commitment of public resources to deliver its service, whether or not available, prompted the national government to adopt the first decision and so far unique in Latin America to create an audit to establish the legitimacy, legality and relevance of the loans, negotiations and renegotiations, which also brought responsibilities and shared responsibility of lenders, social impacts, economic and environmental impacts, and, above all, allowing the accumulation and weight of fundamentals for the country to initiate and sovereign and remedial actions regarding all payments made and future payments as well.

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