Climate Change and the Environmental Debt: a view from the 21st Century Socialism

dublin | environment | event notice Wednesday November 04, 2009 16:50 by LASC - LASC

Monday 9th November @8pm, The Pearse Centre, 27 Pearse Street, Dublin 2

On October, during the last ALBA summit, the member countries of the alliance (Antigua & Barbuda, Bolivia, Cuba, Dominica, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, St. Vincent & the Grenadines and Venezuela) stated their will to pursue at UN level the payment of an environmental debt of the developed and industrialized countries with the Global South. This proposal, while welcomed by environmental and global justice campaigners has sparked a lively debate in the face of the Copenhagen summit. What does actually mean the environmental debt and how does it articulate with an alternative vision of society

Speaker: Maria Beatriz Souviron, since November 2006, is Ambassador of Bolivia for the UK and Northern Ireland. Since November, she is also ambassador for the Republic of Ireland.