Our time in Cochabamba is drawing to a close and we will all be back in Canada by late Sunday afternoon.

The People's World Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth was a profound learning experience.

It helped me better understand the concept of Plachamama (Mother Earth), though it runs so much deeper than a concept.

It made me more fully see that the Harper government is truly an eco-outlaw and that we must find ways to stop the injustices our country now perpetrates.

It allowed me to see the pride in the Bolivian people who have held on to their culture, developed a new constitution, and stepped into their place in history.

The Cochabamba Accord emerging from the 17 working groups at the Peoples World Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth is to be read this afternoon to the thousands assembled at the stadium in Cochabamba, Bolivia.

People, music and dance have filled this stadium with a joyous celebratory feeling of hope and solidarity.

Leaders from many governments are on the stage to take part in this event and hear the reading of the Cochabamba Accord.

At the ‘dialogo pueblos - gobiernos conferencia mundial climatica' (the dialogue between governments and the people) this morning, government leaders stated they would take this accord to COP 16, the climate summit in Cancun, as an alternative to the Copenhagen Accord.

More to come.

The "dialogo pueblos -- gobiernos conferencia mundial climatica" (the dialogue between governments and the people) is taking place at this moment.

Council of Canadians chairperson Maude Barlow is at the Hotel Regina where it is underway, while climate justice campaigner Andrea Harden-Donahue and I are at the media centre at the universidad watching the coverage live on television.

(Maude e-mailed us as Bolivian president Evo Morales and Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez passed by her as they entered the meeting space.)

Al Jazeera now reports that, "the United Nations has backed (the) Bolivian sponsored summit on climate change..."

I am in the Auditorio de Cultura at Univalle at this moment for the presentation of the conclusions of the working groups on climate migration, technology transfers, adaptation, and the global referendum.

There are several hundred people in this university auditorium to vigorously discuss and debate the conclusions of these working groups which have been meeting over the past two days.

The working group statements will go next to a drafting committee and then form the foundation of the dialogue between government leaders and civil society tomorrow at the conclusion of the Peoples World Conference on Climate Change here in Cochabamba, Bolivia.