Radio Mundo Real

At the regional assembly of Friends of the Earth Latin America and the Caribbean (ATALC) held in Costa Rica, Real World Radio interviewed Silvia Quiroa, of CESTA-FoE El Salvador. Silvia told us about how green economy means the commodification of nature and a false solution to climate change.

Silvia told us that in El Salvador, mangroves are threatened by the neutral carbon and REDD mechanisms, which result in privatization and the displacement of communities.

Towards Rio+20 and the Peoples’ Summit, the Salvadorean activist calls different organizations and communities to join the MOVIACC (the Movement of Victims and People Affected by Climate Change), a movement that denounces the false solutions to climate change and proposes alternatives from the peoples and communities to confront the climate crisis in an integral and sustainable way.

The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, known as Rio+20, will take place from June 20-22 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Around 180 representatives from different parts of the world will meet there.

Social, environmentalists, peasants, indigenous and native peoples movements, as well as Brazilian communities in resistance, have been building an alternative and popular space, known as the Peoples Summit, in parallel to the official UN conferences.

This space aims to gather the denunciations about the structural causes of the crisis, and to build common struggle agendas, confronting the "corporate capture" phenomenon that the corporations exert in global governance spaces such as the United Nations, and especially the Rio+20 Summit.