This week, European Parliament will vote on the resolution on Copenhagen summit results, but expectations with COP16 go lower, and alternative summit in Bolivia gains more supporters.

"The real cause of climate change is the capitalist system. If we want to save the earth then we must end that economic model” declared President Evo Morales when he presented the Peoples’ World Conference on Climate Change and Mother Earth’s Rights, to be held from 20th to 22nd April 2010 in Cochabamba, Bolivia.

After the failure of the Copenhagen world summit, Pablo Solón-Romero, Deputy Permanent Representative of Bolivia to the UN, renewed Evo Morales’ invitation to the Conference:  “Nine countries, as countries, have the right to think the way they do, but do not have the right to impose their views on the rest of the world.”

The forthcoming Conference wants to create a context for negotiations in order to make possible a fair climate deal. And it can be a great tribune for President Morales projects’: the proposal for a global referendum on ecological policy and the creation of an international court for environmental justice. In effect, Bolivia and several other neighbor countries of the South are already facing important damages, and will increase drastically the number of environmental refugees soon, who have to be protected.

In ten months, the official agency of United Nations will receive the world-wide leaders, in the City of New Mexico. Although Evo Morales is one of these leaders, he says that he’s not satisfied to see the “leaders’ world-wide” to take all the decisions. Bolivia’s summit on climate, foreseen for April, in the emblematic city of Cochabamba, will “include the aboriginal tribes, social and environmental movements and scientists, as well as the governments that want to work with its people”. The goal, in part, will be that the rich countries pay their bill so that the developing countries can construct more ecological energy infrastructures. The list of invited nations has not yet been divulged.

The President of GUE/NGL and the Party of European Left, Lothar Bisky, welcomes Evo Morales initiative and want to support the People’s world conference, which could present alternatives to capitalism, an become a great tribune for the people of the world.

(article written by Nathalie Duran)