Publicado por BOLPRESS Escrito por Ismael Guzmán 23 Agosto 2010 En estos días la amazonía arde en todo el sentido de la palabra y sin oportunidad para exageración alguna, pues arden los ojos por la frondosa humareda que sale de aquellos árboles que el fuego les acaba de arrebatar su frondosidad; arde el estómago por [...]
Publicado por cmpcc.org Agosto 16, 2010 Después de una semana de negociaciones, las principales conclusiones de la Conferencia Mundial de los Pueblos sobre Cambio Climático y los Derechos de la Madre Tierra (Cochabamba, abril de 2010) han sido incorporadas en el documento de Naciones Unidas sobre Cambio Climático, que ahora ha sido reconocido como un [...]
Published by DemocracyNow 10 Agosto 2010 Even as the world faces a series of extreme weather events that scientists warn is related to global warming, international climate negotiations are moving at a glacial pace. The latest round of climate talks in Bonn, Germany, ended last week, and diplomats have just one more short meeting in [...]
Publicado por cmpcc.org 12 Agosto 2010 Embajador Pablo Solón del Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia, Naciones Unidas, Nueva York, 11 de Agosto de 2010. “Buenos días. Muchas gracias por venir. Llamamos a esta conferencia de prensa para compartir con ustedes cómo vemos el proceso de negociación después de la última reunión que tuvimos en Bonn. Primero [...]
Published by Guardian.co.uk Written by John Vidal 9 August 2010 After the shambles of Copenhagen, a crunch political meeting in Cancún, Mexico, looks unlikely to deliver meaningful progress on the environment. Out in the real world Russia is burning, Pakistan and China are grappling with floods and mudslides, and millions of people are starving after [...]
Publicado por cmpcc.org 3 Agosto 2010 Para limitar el aumento de la temperatura a 1,5° C solo se pueden emitir 420 Gt de CO2 entre 2010 y 2050. A esta cantidad se la conoce como el “presupuesto de carbono” que los países no pueden gastar en exceso si quieren estar por debajo de un determinado [...]
Published by AlterNet 1 August 2010 The planet is running out of water. It was about time for the UN to recognize the right of every human being on earth to water and sanitation. The United Nations General Assembly has declared for the first time that access to clean water and sanitation is a fundamental [...]
Published by LINKS 1 August 2010 Speech delivered by Ambassador Pablo Solón of the Plurinational State of Bolivia before the General Assembly of the United Nations on July 28, 2010. [The historic resolution passed with 122 countries voting for it and 41 abstaining, but with no negative votes. See below for the 41 governments that [...]
Publicado por ALAINET 29 Julio 2010 [La Asamblea General de Naciones Unidas, aprobó ayer 28 de julio, en su sexagésimo cuarto período de sesiones, una resolución que reconoce al agua potable y al saneamiento básico como derecho humano esencial para el pleno disfrute de la vida y de todos los derechos humanos. La resolución fue [...]
Published by DemocracyNow 29 July 2010 The United Nations General Assembly has declared for the first time that access to clean water and sanitation is a fundamental human right. In a historic vote Wednesday, 122 countries supported the resolution, and over forty countries abstained from voting, including the United States, Canada and several European and [...]
Published by Global Poverty 28 July 2010 Activists around the world are raising a glass today — of clear, cold water — after the UN today declared that access to clean water and sanitation is a human right. Without water, the average person wouldn’t last more than a handful of days (or less, depending on [...]
Publicado por Conferencia Mundial de los Pueblos sobre el Cambio Climático y los Derechos de la Madre Tierra 26 Julio 2010 Tema 48 de la Agenda: Implementación integrada y coordinada de y seguimiento a los resultados de las principales conferencias y cumbres de las Naciones Unidas en campos económicos, sociales y campos relacionados. (lista de [...]
Published by guardian.co.uk Written by Maude Barlow 21 July 2010 The world’s running out of clean water. Unless the UN acts, the private sector will appropriate supplies and the poor will suffer On 28 July, for the first time ever, the general assembly of the United Nations will hold a historic summit on the human [...]
Published by ZCommunications.org 20 July 2010 Lessons of Cochabamba By Pablo Solon Source: Socialist Voice Bolivia’s UN ambassador gave this talk to the Shout Out for Global Justice, sponsored by the Council of Canadians and attended by nearly 3,000 people on June 25 in Toronto, during the ten days of protests against the G20 meeting. [...]
Published by UpsideDownWorld,org Written by David Solnit 07 July 2010 Written for Fifth Estate (fifthestate.org), Summer 2010 In spring 2000, the people of Cochabamba, Bolivia rose up against the privatization of their water, forcing out the US based corporation, Bechtel, and Bolivia’s neo-liberal government to back down. The rebellion opened up new political space in [...]
Published by GreenLeft.org Written by Derrick O’Keefe 3 July 2010 While G20 leaders barely made mention of the climate crisis at the June 26-27 G20 summit in Toronto, Pablo Solon, Bolivia’s United Nations ambassador, was in town to encourage action on the “Cochabamba protocols”. It is no surprise that Solon, also Bolivia’s chief climate negotiator, [...]
Published by TERRAVIVA IPS Written by Bankole Thompson 27 June 2010 Bolivian ambassador Pablo Solon said the great challenge of this century is to build a new environmental and social contract. Credit:Bankole Thompson/IPS DETROIT, Jun 27, 2010 (IPS) – The 2010 U.S. Social Forum ended Saturday in Detroit, a city viewed by many as a [...]
Published by COHA Written by Research Associate Katherine Charin 23 June 2010 Evo Morales Ayma, Bolivia’s first indigenous president, has many promises and expectations to fulfill as viewed by his fellow indigenous. During his two terms in office, he has created many new opportunities for Bolivia’s native people, by enforcing the government’s new constitution and [...]
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