As Indigenous Organizations and social movements we have met in the context of the PRE CONFERENCE OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS, held in the city of Cochabamba from the 29th and to the 30th of March 2010, and we have constituted as the Working Group Nº 5 of Climate Justice Tribunal.
Facing the absence of an international legal framework to criminalize and punish all those crimes and climate crimes that attempt against the rights of Mother Earth and humanity, as indigenous peoples and social organizations of Bolivia, we demand the establishment of a Climate Justice Tribunal that has the binding capacity to judge and punish those states and companies that pollute and cause climate change.
We urge peoples to promote a profound transformation of the United Nations Organization (UNO), so that all member states are under the same conditions in order to exert the establishment of a Climate Justice Tribunal from this multilateral organism.
As a short-term strategy indigenous peoples and social organizations demand the extension of the International Criminal Court functions to charge, prosecute and punish climate crimes against Mother Earth and humanity, considered as crimes against humanity, therefore to condemn genocide for climate actions.
We demand the compliance of commitments undertaken by States under the UN Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol.
As a means of strategy, we call on the peoples of the world to take into account existing legal mechanisms in their countries, to prosecute and punish those who attempt against Mother Earth and humanity, through actions or omissions that exacerbate climate change impacts.
The climate justice tribunal should become an instance that requires compliance with the historical climate debt payment, and forces the restitution of damages to Mother Earth and humanity, rejecting carbon credits as a compensation of climate debt.
We call the peoples of the world to join the struggle and mobilization for the consolidation of an Ethical International Tribunal of the Peoples on Climate Justice.
We support the call of the Plurinational State of Bolivia’s President Juan Evo Morales Ayma, to build the Union of Indigenous Peoples and the Peoples of the World as a Multilateral International Organism.
We ratify the establishment of a binding Climate Justice Tribunal to prosecute and punish those responsible for climate change, and we call upon the peoples of the world to support its creation.
World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth 
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April 18, 2010 at 5:43 pm
clairehenri12
GEOENGINEERING IS THE REAL CAUSE OF CLIMATE PROBLEMS.
THE GOVERMENTS OF THE GLOBAL SOUTH SHOULD BE MORE THAN SUSPICIOUS…
Dear friends
I’ve written on april 10th on this forum “1- causas estructurales”, in spanish.
Now I would like to introduce once more the rapport of the ETC group [“Retooling the planet” ->http://www.etcgroup.org/en/node/4966%5D, which everybody actually cannot remain ignoring ortherwise the analysis of the causes of climatic problems are totally falseated.
Extracts:
“…As much as the Industrial Revolution’s unintended “geoengineering” experiment has disproportionately harmed people living in tropical and subtropical areas of the world, purposeful geoengineering experiments are liable to do the same…
The governments that are quietly contemplating funding geoengineering experimentation are the ones that have failed to pony up even minimal funds for mitigation or adaptation action on climate change…
Indeed in some quarters the MAG approach (Mitigation, Adaptation and Geoengineering) are already being proposed for discussions on climate change.
These governments will eagerly divert climate change funding away from climate change mitigation and adaptation toward geoengineering if given the opportunity…
After all, they can spend the money on their own scientists and corporations to launch initiatives that are more likely benefit their part of the world. There is no reason for the governments or peoples of most of Africa, Asia and Latin America to trust that the governments, industries or scientists of the biggest carbon-emitting states will protect
their interests…
In the absence of demonstrable goodwill by the states likely to conduct geoengineering, the governments of the global South should be more than suspicious…
In the absence of public debate and without addressing the inequalities between rich countries and poor countries –in terms of both historical responsibility for climate change and the potential impacts of any techniques deployed to address it – geoengineering is an act of geopiracy…”
Look at the slide show [“ARE THE REAL CAUSES OF CLIMATE CRISIS REALLY THE ONES WE BELIEVE” ->http://dl.free.fr/getfile.pl?file=/40mH1T5q%5D, presented by [ACSEIPICA ->http://acseipica.blogspot.com/%5D at Klimaforum09 Copenhagen on december the 12th.