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April 21, 2010

Peoples’ Climate Summit Opens in Bolivia
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The World Peoples’ Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother
Earth has begun here in Bolivia. On Tuesday, Bolivian President Evo
Morales opened the summit with a call for the creation of an
International Climate Justice Tribunal at the United Nations and the
passage of a UN Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth. Morales said
he called the summit in part to address the failure of the world’s
richest countries to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.

Bolivian President Evo Morales: “We are gathered here because the
so-called developed countries didn’t meet their obligation of
establishing substantial commitments to cutting greenhouse gas emissions
in Copenhagen. If those countries had respected the Kyoto Protocol and
had agreed to substantially reduce the emissions inside their borders,
this conference would not be necessary.”



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