Today, Pablo Solón completes his term as Ambassador for the Plurinational State of Bolivia to the United Nations. As representative of a small and poor country, Solón has played a key role in perhaps the decisive political struggle of this century: the fight against climate change and the unjust economic system causing environmental and social crisis.

This conference will address themes such as ecological crises and citizen alternatives, strategies towards sustainable environment  and industrial conversion, fossil fuel conflicts, science and climate justice, ecosocialism, citizen mobilization to combat shale gaz/ the Tar sands, ecological debt and solidarity, the multiplicity and convergence of networks. In sum, it will be a time to build a movement!

Guests include:
Pablo Solon, ambassador of Bolivia to the Unites Nations and the principal initiator of the movement towards climate change of the People's Summit that took place in Cancun in 2010.

Deutsche Presse-Agentur reports that, "Bolivia threatened Sunday to take court action to block the compromise (climate) deal reached in Mexico... ‘We will file a complaint with the International Court of Justice in The Hague against the text approved in Cancun,' Boliva's UN Ambassador Pablo Solon told the government daily El Cambio."

"Despite a lack of unanimity (required under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change rules), conference chairman Patricia Espinosa approved the comprise... Solon claimed the way Bolivia's position was overruled represented jettisoned the principle of consensus and was an ‘abuse of the framework agreement on climate protection'."

A year ago, it seemed possible -- likely, even -- that President Barack Obama would sweep into the international negotiations on climate change at Copenhagen and make serious progress on the tangle of issues at stake. The reality was quite different. This year, the expectations for the United Nations Climate Conference in Cancun are less exuberant.