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Wanneer: 16/05/2012 - 10:58

Report of the Group's international joint People's Summit for Social and Environmental Justice
For the unity and mobilization of the people in defense of life and the common good, social justice and environmental
against the commodification of nature and "green economy"

A month after the UN Conference Rio +20, the world's people do not see positive results of the negotiation process that is taking place in the official conference. There is not discussing a balance of compliance with the agreements reached in Rio 92 (known as "The Earth Summit") or how to change the causes of the crisis. The focus of the discussion is a package of proposals misleadingly called "green economy" and the establishment of a new system of international environmental governance to facilitate it.

The real cause of the multiple structural crisis of capitalism, with its classical forms of domination and renewed, which produces concentrates wealth and social inequality, unemployment, violence against the people, criminalization of those who report it. The system current consumption and production - represented by large corporations, financial markets and governments to ensure their maintenance - produces and deepens the global warming and the climate crisis, hunger and malnutrition, loss of forests and diversity biological and socio-cultural, chemical pollution, water scarcity, increasing desertification of soils, acidification of the seas, land grabbing and the commodification of all aspects of life in cities and the countryside .

The "green economy", contrary to what its name to suggest, is another phase of capitalist accumulation. Nothing in the "green economy" questions or replaced based economy in the extractive and fossil fuels, and their patterns of consumption and industrial production, but extends the economic operator of the people and the environment to new areas, feeding the myth of that economic growth can be infinite.

The failed economic model, now dressed in green, aims to bring all life cycles of nature to the market rules and the domain of technology, privatization and commodification of nature and its functions, as well as traditional knowledge, increasing speculative financial markets through carbon markets for environmental services, biodiversity offsets and REDD + (Reducing emissions from avoided deforestation and forest degradation).

GM, agrochemicals, Terminator technology, biofuels, nanotechnology, synthetic biology, artificial life, geo-engineering and nuclear power, among others, are presented as "technological solutions" to the natural limits of the planet and the many crisis, without addressing the real causes that provoke them. It also promotes the expansion of agro-food system, which is one of the biggest factors leading to climatic shocks, environmental, economic and social deepening speculation in food, and promoting the interests of agribusiness corporations at the expense of production local peasant family, indigenous peoples and traditional populations and affecting the health of entire populations.

As a trading strategy in the Rio +20 conference, some governments in rich countries are proposing a setback of 92 Rio principles, including the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities, the precautionary principle, the right to information and participation and threatening already established rights, such as indigenous and traditional peoples, peasants, the human right to water, the rights of workers, migrants, the right to food, housing, the city, the rights of youth and women, the right to sexual and reproductive health, education and cultural rights.

Also trying to install a so-called Sustainable Development Objectives (ODS) to be used to promote "green economy", further weakening the already inadequate Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The official process aims to establish global environmental governance forms that serve as managers and facilitators of this "green economy", giving prominence to the World Bank and other public or private financial institutions, international and national, which will provide a new cycle of indebtedness and structural adjustments dressed in green. There can be no democratic global governance without ending the current corporate capture of the United Nations.

We reject this process and call for strengthening and building alternatives demonstrations around the world. We fight for a radical change from the current model of production and consumption, solidifying our right to develop alternative models based on the multiple realities and experiences of the people, genuinely democratic, respect human rights and collective, in harmony with nature and social and environmental justice. We raise the assertion and collective construction of new paradigms based on food sovereignty, agro-ecology and economy of solidarity, defense of life and the commons, the affirmation of all the threatened rights, the right to land and territory, the right the city, the rights of nature and future generations, the elimination of all forms of colonialism and imperialism.

We call on people everywhere to support the Brazilian people's struggle against the destruction of a major legal frameworks for the protection of forests (Forestry Code), which opens avenues for further deforestation in favor of the interests of agribusiness and enlargement of the monocultures, and against the implementation of mega hydraulic Belo Monte, which is affecting the survival and livelihoods of forest peoples and the Amazonian biodiversity. We reiterate the call to participate in the People's Summit to be held from 15 to 23 June in Rio de Janeiro, which will be an important point in the trajectory of the global struggles for social and environmental justice that we are building since Rio-92 particularly from Seattle, WSF, Cochabamba, where they have catapulted the struggles against the WTO and the FTAA, for climate justice and against the G-20. There are also included mass mobilizations as Occupy, the indignados and the Arab spring.

We call on the global mobilization on 5 June (World Environment day), on June 18 against the G20 (which this time will focus on "green growth") and the progress of the People's Summit on 20 June in Rio de Janeiro and in the world, social and environmental justice, against the "green economy", the commodification of life and nature and the defense of the commons and rights of peoples.

Rio de Janeiro, May 12, 2012

Group's international joint People's Summit for Social and Environmental Justice
http://cupuladospovos.org.br/es/2012/05/lo-que-esta-en-juego-en-rio20/