The Dominion - Allan Lissner

Cop 16 Picture 4

Moira Peters — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 04:01:45 +0000

COP16 shut the doors on Indigenous peoples and impacted communities while welcoming with open arms profit-driven business, industry, and speculators. Hope, however, lay in the alliances built among Indigenous and social movements from North and South, as seen when Casey Camp-Horinek of the Ponca Nation of Oklahoma, and other Indigenous peoples from the North, were invited to participate in a Mayan ceremony.

Cop 16 Picture 2

Moira Peters — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 03:41:52 +0000

Since the conclusion of the COP16 United Nations Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Cancun in December, 2010, Indigenous peoples from around the world (including Clayton Thomas-Muller of the Pukatawagan First Nation in Northern Manitoba) have been expressing outrage and disgust at the agreements that emerged from the UN talks. Disproportionately suffering the immediate impacts of climate change, Indigenous peoples were silenced and excluded from the negotiations. Exposed in Wikileaks as a climate scandal, the Cancun Agreements were not the result of an informed and open consensus process, but instead the consequence of an on-going US diplomatic offensive of backroom deals, arm-twisting and bribery.

Cop 16 Picture 1

Moira Peters — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 03:29:00 +0000

A large and colourful Bolivian contingent was leading the push for the Cochabamba People's Agreement reached during the World People's Conference in Bolivia in 2010. The agreement is held up as a model for representing the vision of everyday people from all corners of the globe who are creating solutions to climate change from the ground up. It also calls for a global framework that respects human rights and the rights of Mother Earth.