Radio Mundo Real

The Second International Meeting of the Movement of Victims and Affected by Climate Change (MOVIAC), kicks off this week in Bajo Lempa, El Salvador, in the coast of the Pacific Ocean.

Nearly 28,000 families live in this area, in the estuary of River Lempa – the largest in the country– a place vulnerable to floods. Many residents of Bajo Lempa are people demobilized from the Salvadorean guerilla, and have a long-standing experience in politics, which makes it easier for these movements of resistance to climate change, to emerge.

Real World Radio spoke with Jose Acosta, from Cesta – Friends of the Earth, one of the promoters of this second meeting of MOVIAC.

Acosta believes that this activity may be key for the future coordination between Central American groups, which work on climate change issues. Groups that oppose the installation of hydroelectric dams, which fight against mining, and others working for food sovereignty and the recovery of forests, have already confirmed their participation.

“These issues are all related with climate change”, said Acosta. He is confident that the meeting will help come up with proposals ahead of the UN COP 15 on Climate Change, to be held in December in Copenhaguen, Denmark.

“We need to come up with political decisions worldwide so that the societies that caused these climate problems will provide resources to mitigate the impacts of climate change”, he concluded.