Let the oil underground in the Yasuni park! .
Ecuador is a poor country with immense biodiversity but at the same time depending on the resources generated by oil. With ITT, this small state is trying to appeal to the world in order to have support of countries and responsible citizens for a successful transition to a more sustainable development model and a post-oil economy.
Wanting to fight against global warming, the Ecuadorian government does not operate some 850 million barrels of oil located in the Yasuni park, a nature reserve in the world ...
We, citizens, environmental activists, community and environmental organizations, associations, political parties and unions, denounce the failure of the Copenhagen Summit and urge the French Government and the European Union to support the Yasuni-ITT Initiative of Ecuador.
The ITT project (acronym from the names of the three exploration wells located in the area: Ishpingo-Tambococha-Tiputini) driven by social movements, is one of the initiatives proposed by the Ecuadorian government to fight against global warming. This is not to operate some 850 million barrels of oil located in the Yasuni park, a nature reserve that contains one of the largest global biodiversity and is inhabited by indigenous communities in the Amazon, the Tagaeri, and the Taromenane Oñamenane (indigenous peoples living in voluntary isolation and are part of the Waorani nationality).
Ecuador's economy is mainly based on the rent that oil accounted for 22.2% of GDP, 63.1% of exports and 46.6% of the General State Budget for the 2008. ITT reserves represent approximately 20% of total reserves in the country known. So it's a financial windfall that a country as poor that Ecuador can not do without. However, the Ecuadorian government's proposal is not to exploit the reserves of fossil energy, while the operation of the heavy oil could bring the state between 5 and 6 billion (with a price of about 70 dollars per barrel).
In exchange, Ecuador, based on the UN principle of common but differentiated responsibilities for global environmental problems, the international community to demand a contribution of 50% of the financial windfall he may have s' had operated oil. Indeed, avoiding emissions of about 410 million tonnes of CO2, encourage conservation of biodiversity in the Amazon, preventing deforestation, uphold the rights of indigenous peoples who inhabit this land, bringing benefits to mankind as a whole . This is a step towards the recognition of climate as a global public good and the ecological debt of the most polluting countries.
The failure of the Copenhagen World Summit which was to reach a binding agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, to extend the Kyoto Protocol for the period after 2012, leads us to get our governments to their responsibilities, including their commitment to support existing initiatives. The ITT is indeed a beginning of ecological transition to move towards an alternative model of development and not production-abiding "Madre Tierra", Nature, for Ecuador and the rest of the world.
It is no longer intends to make speeches on the impacts of global warming and climate change. The world needs concrete measures and the establishment of genuine public policy in terms of ecology, supported on social movements and peoples concerned. The ITT project, now threatened by the lack of commitments that reinforces those who oppose it, is one of the first initiatives that will in that sense, it represents an example for the post-oil economy and climate justice into reality.
We urge the French Government and the EU to follow the example of Germany (which has committed to fund this project for 50 million euros per year for 13 years ) and make a contribution to financial the Yasuni-ITT Initiative will be realized. We also urge the government of Ecuador to continue his project, in conjunction with social movements who wear it.
Finally, the failure of negotiations in Copenhagen has shown that it is more necessary than ever that all social movements and societies are reclaiming the debate. We therefore commit ourselves to mobilize collectively to support the Yasuni-ITT Initiative and invite social movements, environmental movements and more generally the global movement to support this appeal.
To sign the petition:
http://projetitt.vacau.com/wordpress/? page_id = 148
More info:
http://www.sosyasuni.org/fr/
http://www.yasuni-itt.gov. ec /
First signatories:
Acción Ecológica (Ecuador), Alianza Social Continental, Anciela Association, Association A Sud (Italy); Association communist unit (ACU) Association France Latin America ATTAC France ; CADTM Switzerland Casa del Arbol (Ecuador); Information Centre on Environment and Health Action; CONAIE (Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador), Confédération Paysanne, ENLACE / PSOL Brasil; Federation for Alternative social and ecological (FASE), Fondation France Libertés Fundación Pachamama (Ecuador); ICRA International Ingenieros sin Fronteras (Spain); Anticapitalista Izquierda (Spain); alternatives; Movement Utopia, MRAP (Movement against Racism and for Friendship between Peoples); NatureRights, New Anti-Capitalist Party ( NPA), Observatorio de la Deuda in the Globalización (Spain), Oilwatch (Ecuador); Left Party, Socialist Party, Solidarity, Greens, Alberto Acosta, former President of the Constituent Assembly and former Minister of Mines and Energy in Ecuador Margarita Aguinaga, Casa Feminista de Rosa (Ecuador); Francois Alfonsi, MEP Europe Ecologie; Rosana Alvarado Carrión, Chairman of the Board of Biodiversity and Natural Resources of the National Assembly of Ecuador, Francis Autain, Left Party Senator of Loire-Atlantique, Geneviève Azam, ATTAC France, Sandrine Aries, MEP Europe Ecologie; Malika Benarab-Attou , MEP Europe Ecology, Jean-Paul Besset, MEP Europe Ecology, Martine Billard, French MP, Left Party, Lothar Bisky, Die Linke MEP, President of the GUE / NGL Group in the European Parliament and president of PGE, Jorge Bocanegra , Deputy Mayor of Toul-Vice-President of the CTC , José Bové, MEP Europe Ecologie; Brigitte Brozio, College Green Executive, delegated to the International and Europe; Raul Camargo, National Directorate Anticapitalista Izquierda (Spain), Pascal Canfin MEP Europe Ecologie; Nikolaos Chountis , Greek MEP GUE / NGL for Syriza, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, MEP Europe Ecologie; Annick Coupe, Solidarity spokesman, Karim Delli, MEP Europe Ecology, Isabelle Durant, MEP and Vice-President of the European Parliament, Verts / ALE (Belgium); Fander Falconí, Research Professor at FLACSO-Ecuador; Helene Flautre MEP Europe Ecologie; Enith Flores CADTM Ecuador; Judith Flores, Colectivo Feminista (Ecuador); FG, political scientist and member of the editorial collective www.rebelion.org ; Jerome Gleizes, head of the Transnational Committee of the French Greens, Laura Greco, President of the association A Sud (Italy); Natalia Greene, Fundación Pachamama (Ecuador), Catherine Grèze, MEP Europe Ecologie; Takis Hadjigeorgiou, MEP for AKEL (Cyprus), Satu Hassi, MEP, Group Greens / EFA (Finland), Joe Higgins, MEP for the Socialist Party (Ireland); Nicole Hugon, Councilwoman City of Marseille Group "Greens" Yannick Jadot MEP Europe Ecology, Eva Joly, MEP Europe Ecology, Claudio Katz, Economist of Izquierda Argentina, Pierre Khalfa, Partners, Nicole Kiil-Nielsen, MEP Europe Ecologie; Jurgen Klute, MEP GUE / NGL for Die Linke, Alain Krivine, NPA; Patrick Hyarick MEP Front Left, Matthew Le Quang, Politics, associate researcher at FLACSO-Ecuador; Rosa López Asamblea de Mujeres Diversas y Populares (Ecuador); Sabine Lösing, MEP GUE / NGL for Die Linke; Francisco Louca, Deputy for Bloco de Esquerda (Portugal), Michael Lowy, NPA, Eduardo Lucita, Economista de Izquierda Argentina; Ulrike Lunacek , MEP, Greens / EFA Group (Austria); Piero Maestri, spokesman Sinistra Critica (Italy); Noel Mamere, MP, Greens, Esperanza Martinez, Oilwatch, Jonathan Martinez, Member of Parliament Group Alternatiba Bizkaia ( Basque Country), Marisa Matias, MEP for Bloco (Portugal), Jean-Luc Melenchon, MP Front de gauche européen, Céline Meneses, President de la commission internationale du Parti de Gauche, Willy Meyer, député européen GUE / NGL Espagne pour Izquierda Unida, Laetitia Moreau, Réalisatrice of documentaires, Corinne Morel Darleux, secrétaire nationale du parti au combat écologique of gauche, Samanta Novella, Fondation NatureRights; Patrice Perret, Solidaires, Stalin Perez Borges, national Coordinateur National Union of Workers JOIN, member of the National Socialist Workers Front FST-PSUV (Venezuela), Miguel Portas, député européen pour Bloco (Portugal), Franck Pupunat, Porte-parole du Mouvement Utopia, Michèle Rivasi, MEP Europe Ecologie; Raul Romeva i Rueda, MEP, Greens / EFA Group (Spain) Laurence Rossignol, the Socialist Party national secretary for the Environment. Vice-president of the Picardy region, Pierre Rousset, President of Europe of Solidarity Without Borders (FSSA); Heide Rühle MEP, Greens / EFA Group (Germany), Catherine Samary, Professor of Economics at the University Paris-Dauphine , Helmut Scholz, Die Linke MEP, Head of International Die Linke, Bart Staes, MEP, Greens / EFA Group (Belgium), Rui Tavares, MEP for Bloco (Portugal), Eric Toussaint, a political scientist and president CADTM Belgium; Stephanie Treillet, Economist; Roseline Vachetta, member of the NPA; Françoise Verchere, Vice-President of the General Council of Loire-Atlantique, Marie-Christine Vergiat, MEP Left Front; Esther Vivas, anticapitalista Izquierda (Spain), Sabine Wills MEP Die Linke, Dr. Jose Luis Yela, EcoLogo, Professor at the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Gabi Zimmer, Die Linke MEP
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