Ecuador: Documentary About Yasuni Slammed for Misleading Public
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7 October 2015 - 08:50 PM
Analysis
Ecuador: Documentary About Yasuni Slammed for Misleading Public
In 2010, Bolivia hosted the first “People's Summit on Climate Change” following U.N. climate talks in Copenhagen that failed to lead to any meaningful international action. With the country set to host a second round of people-centered talks this month, it’s worth looking back at what the previous conference achieved.
Attended by over 30,000 people from around the world – activists and Indigenous peoples, as opposed to just diplomats and heads of state – the 2010 summit focused on the root causes of climate change and led to a series of proposals that stressed the inherent rights of nature itself, among them: a Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth and the establishment of a Climate Justice Tribunal that sought to hold accountable those who violated those rights. During the conference, participants concluded that all countries must and should adhere to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.
A key topic of discussion at the last summit was the notion of “climate debt”: that the world’s most developed nations, as the globe’s leading polluters, owe reparations to the developing nations that are likely to be most affected by climate change. That’s where the tribunal comes in. According to a proposal passed at the summit, that tribunal would have “the authority to judge, civilly and criminally, states, multilateral organizations, transnational corporations, and any legal persons responsible for aggravating the causes and impacts of climate change.”
During the two-day event, participants also drafted a People’s Agreement document, which declared that “Mother Earth is an indivisible, living community of interrelated and interdependent beings with a common destiny.” That discourse on the rights of Mother Earth soon caught the attention of world leaders and international policy makers.
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[font size=2]On edit, added Friday, (with help) 10-9-15, the right headline, and the right link to this story!
Nature First: A Look Back at Bolivia's 2010 Climate Conference
Published 7 October 2015
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Nature-First-A-Look-Back-at-Bolivias-2010-Climate-Conference-20151007-0024.html[/font]
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The headline and the article don't match. I wouldn't mind reading what else happened at the People's Summit on Climate Change in Bolivia, but the link doesn't go there. The link DOES match the headline, and is also an interesting article (about Ecuador).
I doubt it would have occurred to me to check it later, either.
Here's the right article with the right headline:
7 October 2015 - 08:50 PM
Analysis
Ecuador: Documentary About Yasuni Slammed for Misleading Public
Ecuador's Ministry of the Environment lashed out against a recent short documentary about oil exploration in the Yasuni National Park, accusing the filmmaker of a lack of professionalism, violating the country’s regulations, and making edits in bad faith to deliberately mislead the public.
Photograph taken May 16, 2007, of the Napo River in Ecuador
British journalist Nina Bigalke published a video report alleging the construction of roads in Yasuni National Park are in violation of the license granted by the government to exploit oil in Block 31.
Bigalke's allegation that a “highway” has been built inside Yasuni parrots criticisms made by political opponents of the government of President Rafael Correa.
Bigalke's argument is centered around the idea that the exploration license did not permit the state-oil company Petroamazonas to build roads inside Yasuni, however that was never the case.
Ecuador has never denied having built a temporary road inside Yasuni, which it categorizes as an “ecological path,” but Bigalke confuses terms, using the words highway and road interchangeably. No permanent roads have been built inside the Yasuni National Park, say the government. Being an environmentally sensitive area, special consideration was made so that the environmental impact would be minimal and would cause no permanent effects.
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http://www.telesurtv.net/english/analysis/Ecuador-Documentary-About-Yasuni-Slammed-for-Misleading-Public-20151007-0033.html
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