Saturday, May 04, 2013

Former Bolivian ambassador to the UN: "we need to strengthen the [CO2] compliance system with some kind of climate justice tribunal and sanctions...The main task to address poverty is not development but redistribution of wealth..."

Pablo Solon: everyone must accept binding climate commitments
Everybody has to adopt binding commitments. Some do much more, some do less, some can increase emission for some years but its clear when they will reduce and by how much.

And in order to guarantee these binding commitments we need to strengthen the compliance system with some kind of climate justice tribunal and sanctions.
...In the majority of countries, poverty is the result of concentration of wealth in very few hands. The main task to address poverty is not development but redistribution of wealth at national, regional and global level...
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Pablo Solon is Executive Director of Focus on the Global South, and a former ambassador of the Plurinational State of Bolivia to the United Nations.  [Via MT]

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

It's always the fault of 'someone else'.
"I know" said the leftist South American,
" - lets blame the West and America"
- that's the default position of the UN and S.Am.

Bolivia could be a rich country if it wasn't for the massive fraud and corruption of it's own elite and government - they hate the Bolivians, the West ain't your enemy.

If you want someone to blame Pablo Solon - look a bit closer to home.