All of us are descendants of people who were originally dwellers of forests and rural communities. Technology developments might have pushed all memories of those ancient habitats beyond even occasional thoughts. Yet, most of us might feel some semblance of sympathy for the people who have no access to the technologies and its benefts.
It is in such a context that the demand of the indigenous people of Bolivia helps us to view things in a new perspective. At a conference in the city of Cochabamba, Bolivia on March 29th and 30th 2010, the Indigenous-Originally-Rural Peoples and Social Organizations of Bolivia agreed up certain actions.
They demand that developed nations fulfill and revise the commitments they had assumed under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, regarding the development and transfer of technology.
It was clarified that the technologies must be clean, environmentally sound, accessible for all developing countries. The demand went on to add that the transfer process must not be subject to profit, and rejected the proposal of developed countries of creating a “technology pool” where instead of transferring technology, it is put to sale at inaccessible costs.
A second demand was for the creation of the Climate Justice Tribunal and the imposition of sanctions by this Tribunal on States that do not fulfil their commitments of development and transfer of technology.
Read about the conference details and additional demands at World People’s Conference of Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth.
