Earth Day: Climate Change Awareness Around The World

In Bolivia, on Earth Day, where he held the Peoples’ Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, an initiative of President Evo Morales, several Latin American leaders demanded that the industrialized countries to halve their greenhouse gases 2020.

In the region of Tiquipaya (central Bolivia), Morales said that the difference between this meeting and was held in Copenhagen that this was discussed the causes of climate change and not just the effects.

At the same meeting, the president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, predicted that the climate change conference convened by the UN for December in Cancún (Mexico) there will be conflicts, if that agency is silent on what he called “blackmail” of U.S. to other countries to support the document adopted by some in Copenhagen in 2009.

Also, Thursday, Earth Day, marked the first time, the International Day of Mother Earth, also initiated by Morales, which was adopted last year at the UN General Assembly.

A conclusion that joined the UN with a message of warning about the limits of the planet to support the actions “irrational” human being and a call for sustainable development.

“I urge governments, businesses and citizens of the world to give Mother Earth the respect and care it deserves,” said UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon.

For its part, the Government of Guatemala called Earth Day, “Mother Earth forgiveness” for the severe damage caused to the environment, a country with 97 percent of its polluted rivers.

In El Salvador, environmental organizations demanded the creation of a sustainable policy for electricity, while the government declared 11 new protected areas, in addition to the existing 59 for a total of 70.

In Brazil, where the Amazon covers an area of 3.6 million square kilometers, or 42 percent of the country, not organized anything for Earth Day.

Something similar happened in Venezuela, where they were held only in some regions of the countryside, walks and commemorative events, mainly in schools.

In Paraguay, foremost celebration was held yesterday at the Plaza de la Democracia, in the center of Asuncion, where he held an arts festival and was installed the so-called “Oxygen Clock”, as part of a reforestation campaign.

Meanwhile, Argentine environmentalists, who filed today in the Senate a bill to manage waste electrical and electronic equipment, celebrated with music, workshops, outdoor theater and for the first time, with a concert powered entirely by renewable energy.