The Buemos Aires Herald reports that the, “Bolivian city of Cochabamba will be the venue for the World Summit for Climate Change from April 19th to April 22nd 2010, announced Bolivian President Evo Morales. The summit, organized as a world conference of social movements, will operate as a response to the failure of the 15th Summit on Climate Change, recently held in Copenhagen.”
“(Morales) also said that he had requested technical and scientific arguments to support a large-scale international mobilization to defend the environment, especially water.”
The report adds, “The head of state assured that the summit will count on the participation of scholars, experts, social organizations and heads of state. ‘Our main goal is to reach a consensus so as to move forwards to the next Summit on Climate Change, to be held in Mexico…,’ he concluded.”
A release from the Bolivian Foreign Ministry (at www.rree.gov.bo) states, “In a press conference, the Head of State reiterated that Bolivia will convene the Peoples Summit on Climate Change to be attended by the presidents of several countries, representatives of social movements and indigenous specialists in environmental issues to analyze the causes of the dangers looming over the planet.”
COP 16, the next full ‘conference of parties’ after COP 15 in Copenhagen, is to be held in Mexico City on November 29 to December 10.
The Buenos Aires Herald report is at http://www.buenosairesherald.com/BreakingNews/View/20843.
