With less than a week before the First People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth world eyes are focusing on Cochabamba, Bolivia. Over 15,000 participants have registered and the 17 working groups have been actively conversing electronically to debate and prepare for next weeks conference.
John Vidal, The Guardian April 13, 2010 writes “The World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth which opens next week in the small Bolivian town of Cochabamba, will have no direct bearing on the UN climate talks being conducted by 192 governments. But Bolivian President Evo Morales says it will give a voice to the poorest people of the world and encourage governments to be far more ambitious following the failure of the Copenhagen summit. For more …