Want more information about deforestation, climate change, and women's human rights? Click here for more of MADRE's analysis and to get a glimpse of the message that we have been conveying here in Bali.
Here's a hint about the root of the problem:
"Our enormously productive economy…demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and selling of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfaction, our ego satisfaction, in consumption…We need things consumed, burned up, worn out, replaced, and discarded at an ever-increasing rate." Read on to find out who said that.
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MADRE at the UN Conference on Climate Change
In December 2007, the United Nations Conference on Climate Change was held in Bali, Indonesia. These discussions were set to determine the course that the international community would take to address human-induced climate change. MADRE representatives were present to underscore that women's human rights are crucial to resolving the climate change crisis.
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- New Year, No Resolutions on Climate Change
- Climate Change Has a Woman's Face
- Indigenous Peoples Denounce the New Forest Carbon ...
- Climate Change on International Human Rights Day
- How Carbon Emissions Cause Human Trafficking: The ...
- PS About Deforestation
- Global Trade Rules Damage Climate and Biodiversity
- Behind Closed Doors with Yvo de Boer
- Seeing REDD
- Upside Down World
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- Who speaks for you in Bali?
- Who's in charge of the climate change agenda?
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