The rights of nature, from Cochabamba to Cancún

Credit: Robert Garcia, The City Project

They didn’t get much press—the 15,000 or so people who gathered last April in Cochabamba, Bolivia, for a different kind of climate gathering. Discouraged by what the world “leaders” failed to accomplish last December at the UN meeting in Copenhagen, these citizens and ordinary folks, many of them indigenous people from smaller countries, led the way in the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth. Read More…