Bolivian delegation in Doha
In the plenary session of the subsidiary body
for scientific and technological advice (SBSTA), was intended to include
agriculture as an activity related to the mitigation and the capture of carbon
with the evident intention then convert agricultural removals of carbon in
carbon to carbon market credits. This position promoted by some developed
countries is unknown the role of agriculture in food security, the provision of
sources of work and life to the indigenous and peasant communities and small
farmers.
In these circumstances, the head of the
Bolivian delegation requested the floor in the plenary session of SBSTA, to
denounce that it is an attack on nature and common sense that is pushing
countries to commodifying agriculture with carbon credits as it did with the
forests through REDD +, as it intends to do with the oceans and the Earth.
"Mr President - express the Bolivian
delegation-, in Bolivia the 37% of the population produces food that are the
basis of food security peasant and indigenous and the remaining 63% of the
population." Agriculture provides food, give us jobs, gives us life, is the
cultural, economic and social basis of our communities, our villages, our
producers. Agriculture affected by climate change, natural disasters caused by
extreme weather events... cannot assume agriculture only as an element of
climate mitigation (i.e., of emission and absorption of carbon)! We must mainly
focus on agriculture within the framework of the climate adaptation, of the
eradication of poverty and hunger... not intend mitigate our sources of life!
", expressed."
A hard debate was generated in the room and
many countries have expressed the same opinion, including India, Argentina,
Brazil, Uruguay, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Cuba. Position critical of many
developing countries caused this issue was postponed and will be discussed
during 2013 in several sessions for consideration at the next
COP19.
(Doha 2 de diciembre 2012)
Unidad Madre Tierra y Agua / Ministerio de
Relaciones Exteriores, Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia
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