Indigenous People United: People's World Conference on Climate Change & Mother Earth Rights

Are we Listening? Do we realize what is happening? Climate Change represents a real threat to the existence of humanity, of living beings, and our Mother Earth as we know it today. Bolivia's President Evo Morales, an Indigenous person, has created a new opportunity for climate talks that failed in Copenhagen. (The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, December 2009, was a step backwards). Bolivia will host an international meeting on Climate Change 19-22 April, People's World Conference on Climate Change and Mother Earth Rights to advance effective just solutions formulated by the people and free of narrow economic interests. Erika Duenas, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of the Plurinational State of Bolivia in the U.S. joins our dialogue about the People's World Conference and the crisis our planet faces. "Mother Earth is no longer in a period of Climate Change, but in Climate Crisis. We therefore insist on an immediate end to the destruction and desecration of the elements of life." (Anchorage Declaration, April 2009 by Indigenous Peoples Global Summit.)