WE ARE NO DEBTORS! WE ARE CREDITORS OF A HISTORICAL, SOCIAL AND ECOLOGICAL DEBT!
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CARBON DEBT AND CLIMATE CHANGE
 Eco Debt means calling in the historical debt that the industrialized countries from the North have with the Third World for the illegitimate and disproportionate appropriation of the atmosphere and its capacity to absorb the planet’s carbon.
The countries from the North are the principal culprits of global warming and the climatic changes caused by the enormous carbon dioxide emissions from their industries and their transport. The burning of fossil fuels, required for industry and for running transport but a non-renewable source of energy, has ousted millions of people from their homes and resulted in death and destruction throughout the Southern countries, the most vulnerable.
The impact of climatic change at local and global level has become apparent in declining rainfalls, flooding, desertification, and stronger and ever-more frequent climatic phenomena such as hurricanes, el Niño, storms, etc., as well as polar melting and the rise of the snow-line. Loss of human life, damage to agricultural crops, and the destruction of highway and housing infrastructures have become widespread. In order to prevent, reconstruct and adapt to these changes, many countries from the South have succumbed to foreign debt. Furthermore, projects included as part of Clean Development Mechanisms and comprising the climatic change agreements, such as carbon sinks, will join the list of other false solutions that include nuclear energy, agro-fuels and mega-damns, resulting in further environmental damage.
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Wednesday, 09 December 2009 |
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 OPEN
LETTER
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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Tuesday, 01 July 2008 |
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Dear friends,
The publication 'Poverty, climate and energy: the case against oil aid' is now available
from:
http://www.foei.org/en/publications/pdfs/pdf-oil-poverty-briefing
This five page briefing explains why providing subsidies to oil, mining
and gas companies is not the right way to reduce poverty. The briefing, useful in your work with officials
from your ministries, was published by FoEI, Oil Change and Julilee South-AMPDD.
pdf-oil-poverty-briefing 468.11 Kb
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Tuesday, 26 August 2008 |
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‘TOWARDS
CLIMATE JUSTICE IN ASIA'
Summary
report of the Climate Justice Conference, Bangkok 12-14 July 2008
From
12 to 14 July 2008, over 170 activists including fishers and farmers,
forest and indigenous peoples, women, youth, workers, researchers and
campaigners from 31 countries gathered at Chulalongkorn University in
Bangkok, Thailand for a conference on climate justice. This summary
report provides a brief and non-exhaustive summary of the issues
discussed, agreements reached, and strategies proposed during the
conference. For more information, see the conference website
www.focusweb.org/climatechange
.
thailand_climate_justice_conference_summary
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Saturday, 04 October 2008 |
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JOIN the GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION AGAINST ILLEGITIMATE DEBT, IFIs & CLIMATE CHANGE on
OCTOBER 13, 2008
Part of the Week of Global Action vs Debt & IFIs
Debts that were used for harmful projects or to impose harmful policies are illegitimate. And illegitimate debt has been a major factor to the escalation of the climate crisis. International Financial Institutions such as the World Bank and the IMF, bear a significant part of the responsibility for illegitimate debt and harmful debt-related projects and policies.
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