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By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger
(reposted with permission)
On Monday, climate activists, nonprofit leaders, and governmental officials will gather in Cochabamba, Bolivia, to look for new ideas to address climate change. The conference, organized by leading social organizations like 350.0rg, “will advocate the right to “live well,” as opposed to the economic principle of uninterrupted growth,” as Inter Press Service explains. In the absence of real leadership from the world’s governments, the conferees at Cochabamba are looking for solutions “committed to the rights of people and environment.”
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Too many times business leaders let their greed overcome them, making profit the most important factor in the decision-making process. But while this may skyrocket the company to superstar status, and make a handful of shareholders wealthy, the consequences of choosing money over people and the earth are severe. Unfortunately, the ones who suffer the most have the weakest voice. Who will speak out for those that can’t? We live in a country where we pledge “liberty and justice for all”, yet we allow ourselves to disregard these values in situations beyond our borders.
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A short video taken just outside the NGO exhibition hall at the Bella Center this morning of a demonstration to help raise awareness of climate change and the rights of indigenous people:
Continue Reading COP15: The Rights of Indigenous People
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Today is Blog Action Day, an event started started in 2007 by Change.org in partnership with Greenpeace, The Nature Conservancy, and WWF. The annual event asks bloggers from around the world to focus their efforts for one day on a specific issue, from the environment in 2007, to world poverty in 2008, and today on climate change.
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Multinational agricultural corporations, government subsidies and free trade agreements are threatening world crop and plant diversity and the ability of small, traditional farmers to adapt to climate change, according to research presented at the 2nd annual World Seed Conference in Rome.
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Agriculture, climate change, conservation of natural resources and biodiversity, and and socio-economic development are all coming together in Nairobi, Kenya as participants from around the globe attend the 2nd World Agroforestry Congress.
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Fostering widespread development and adoption of agroforestry and sustainable agricultural methods and practices offers the largest, surest practically and economically effective means of mitigating and adapting to climate change, while also addressing energy, food security, economic development and loss of biodiversity, according to a UNEP-World Agroforestry Centre report.
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A report released last week called ” In Search of Shelter: Mapping the Effects of Climate Change on Human Migration and Displacement” outlines the ongoing effects of climate change on the growing migration of “climate refugees.”
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Day one of the June 1-12 UNFCC sixth session of the Ad Hoc Working Group got under way. The meeting will focus on the Negotiating Text recently published for consideration of a final international agreement this December at COP15 in Copenhagen. The agreement reached in December will replace the Kyoto Protocol that expires in 2012.
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With organizations and representatives around the world gearing up for key international climate change negotiations in Copenhagen this December, the experience of industrial tree farming in South Africa highlights the perils and pitfalls associated with hammering out a more comprehensive, multidisciplinary and integrated accord.
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