LA PAZ, Feb 25 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) – Bolivia expects a large majority of countries will attend the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and Mother Earth’s Rights in Cochabamba on April 20-22, Deputy Environment Minister Juan Pablo Ramos said.

Ramos, who is also Biodiversity and Climate Change minister told Prensa Latina that he was also was convinced that the event will serve to mobilise the masses in protecting the planet.

The summit will be attended by social organisations, indigenous people, activists, experts, scientists and institutions involved in protecting the Earth, he said.

It is a specific event, where “we try to achieve, through peoples’ conscience, to press developed countries to change the large scale capitalist, consuming and pollutant model,” said the minister.

Ramos stated that the summit’s official website is receiving a daily average of 1,600 visits, showing that the colloquium will have a vast attendance of delegates.

Sources here said the Copenhagen Summit last Dec was a categorical failure for as the Final Declaration did not include the main issues under discussion.

As a consequence, developing countries including the nations of the Bolivarian Alliance of the People of Our America (ALBA) vetoed against the document and Bolivian President Evo Morales called for another meeting. — NNN-PRENSA LATINA

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