Bolivian government leads the way on fighting the global warming crisis

From: "Bolivia creates a new opportunity for climate talks that failed at Copenhagen"

Bolivia will host an international meeting on climate change next month because it is not prepared to 'betray its people'

By Pablo Solón Romero

The Guardian, March 19, 2010

See full article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/cif-green/2010/mar/19/bolivia-conference-on-climate-change

In the aftermath of the Copenhagen climate conference, those who defended the widely condemned outcome tended to talk about it as a "step in the right direction". This was always a tendentious argument, given that tackling climate change can not be addressed by half measures. We can't make compromises with nature.

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From: "Climate Change: From Copenhagen to Cochabambas"

By Franz Chavez
InterPress
March 30, 2010

See full article: http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50851

LA PAZ

A different way of fighting global warming will be tried out in the central Bolivian city of Cochabamba when government representatives and thousands of activists gather for the World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth.