Bolivia To Take Dispute Over Climate Negotiations To International Court
In the early hours before an agreement was made in Cancun toward a global deal to combat climate change, one country, Bolivia, repeatedly stood up to voice its opposition to the process. The COP's president, Patricia Espinosa of Mexico, gaveled down Bolivia and a deal was ultimately approved. Now Bolivia plans to take its fight to International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Netherlands, where it will complain that international law was disobeyed in Cancun.
Bolivia says that its opposition to the agreement is right, and that an agreement cannot be made without "consensus." Over 190 other countries voted for the Cancun Agreements, with Bolivia the lone dissenter. I was in Cancun for my day job and negotiators there said that consensus doesn't mean unanimity.
Bolivia opposes the weak emissions reduction commitments of developed countries and, among other issues, doesn't want forests to be turned into carbon offsets for big polluters to trade in a market. Bolivia also intends to hold another "World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth" in Cochabamba.
All he wants is a stronger and real effort/response. Isn't that what Mother earth deserves?
No comments:
Post a Comment