LA PAZ, April 8 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) – About 120 countries and international organisations have confirmed attendance to the World People’s Conference on Climate Change on April 19-22 in Cochabamba, Bolivia.

Minister of the Presidency Oscar Coca said it is being coordinated with the Foreign Ministry to welcome about 20,000 delegatesl to the conference.

Coca said the summit plans to discuss a world agenda against capitalism aimed at the preservation of the Earth and the environment.

President Evo Morales convened this meeting after the failure of the UN Summit on Climate Change last Dec in Copenhagen,Denmark.

Meanwhile farmers’ group leader, Dionisio Cabrera said that delegates from his sector are already registering to take part in the forum. The farming sector, he added will urge industrialised countries to pay the environmental debt.

The document containing Bolivia’s proposals was agreed in the pre-World Conference of the Peoples and Social Organisations on Climate Change and Rights of the Earth, held last month in Cochabamba. — NNN-PRENSA LATINA

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