Development

The Climate Change Crisis, a Challenge for the Human Condition and for an Ethics of Nature

In this article, Elizabeth Peredo explains that the climate change crisis is, at the same time a chance to to develop an integral vision to take on this global crisis of civilization that includes addressing: rules of commerce, financial systems, productive matrixes, forms of dealing with nature and water, means of consumption, culture of daily life and the indigenous concept of “living well”.  

Elizabeth Peredo is a Bolivian social psychologist, researcher and activist on gender, ethnicity, water, human rights and climate change; she works with the Foundation Solon and is part of the Hemispheric Social Alliance.   Bolivia has played a leading role in the struggle for climate change. 

Fight Climate Change in Haiti

Help Haiti Resist the Impacts of Climate Change

As leaders throughout the world gather in Copenhagen to negotiate a reduction in greenhouse gases, vulnerable communities continue to face the impacts of climate change.

According to the Climate Change Vulnerability Index developed by British risk analysts Maplecroft, Haiti is is the second most at risk country when it comes to the impacts of climate change.

Hemispheric Social Alliance Statement on Climate Change

We demand effective commitments for fighting climate change

 

Between the 7th and 18th of December, 2009 during the UN Conference on Climate Change (COP15) in Copenhagen, world governments will attempt to make commitments for reducing carbon emissions and lay out policies for mitigating climate change. In the face of the urgency and the growing recognition of the dangerous consequences of this phenomenon, the whole world is awaiting the decisions that will be made.

Bill Callahan

1931 - 2010

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