Thu, March 18, 2010
LA PAZ, March 17 (Xinhua) -- The Bolivian representative of the Peoples' World Conference on Climate Change and Mother Earth's Rights will propose a world referendum that could gather 2 billion people to stop global warming.
Bolivian ambassador to the United Nations Pablo Solon told the press
Wednesday that this proposal has a purpose -- namely that the Conference could approve taking this initiative to all governments.
"Our goal is to reach some 2 billion voters ... the only thing that can save humans from a climate tragedy is the exercise of democracy in the world," Solon said.
The world referendum was already proposed by Bolivian President Evo Morales at the Copenhagen Summit in December 2009. The questions of the referendum "will be discussed, enriched and complemented in the Conference, and we will see how the world's referendum will be implemented," Solon said.
Social movements and indigenous people of 94 countries, together with the representatives of 70 governments, will attend the conference. It will be held from April 20 to 22 in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
According to Solon, the conclusions of the conference will be taken to the UN Climate Summit to be hosted in Mexico in December, where the pending discussion of the Copenhagen Summit will be resumed.
