<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote">From Copenhagen to Cancun: <br><div class="gmail_quote">Interpreting Development, Sovereignty & Global Environmental Governance<br><br>Four qualified experts, scholars and international negotiators will address the opportunities and challenges contained in the UN discussions on Climate Change as they debate on questions such as: What are the visions and differences between the North and the South in such discussions? Is economic development compatible with environmental justice? How can national sovereignty issues be addressed in the context of an international environmental governance system? Join this panel of dynamic experts as they shed light in these crucial issues.<br>
<br>October 25th , 2010 6-9pm<br>at Lyons Dining Hall, Boston College (140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467)<br>Maps, Directions, Parking, Public Transportation: <br>
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<br>Free admission, dinner will be served<br><br>Featuring:<br><br>Claudia Salerno Caldera, Special Envoy on Climate Change for the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela <br><br>Pablo Solón, Ambassador to the Permanent Mission of the Plurinational State of Bolivia to the UN <br>
<br>Julio Escalona, Adjunct Ambassador to the Permanent Mission of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to the UN<br><br>Charles Derber, Scholar, writer, and former Director of Social Economy and Social Justice Graduate Programs at Boston College<br>
<br><br>About the Panelists: <br><br>Claudia Salerno Caldera is the Special Envoy on Climate Change for the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and Director of International Institutions at the Multilateral and Integration Affairs Office for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. A renown environmentalist, Ms. Salerno holds degrees in International Relations and a Doctorate in International Environmental Law. She represented the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), a regional cooperation bloc between eight Latin American and Caribbean countries at the UN Climate Change Conference in Tianjin, China.<br>
<br>Ms. Salerno interview at Tianjin:
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<br><br>Pablo Solón Romero is the Ambassador of the Plurinational State of Bolivia to the United Nations, and principal negotiator on climate change policy. Mr. Solón was one of the designers of the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth in Cochabamba, Bolivia, which took place last April, 2010. Formerly Bolivia's Ambassador for issues concerning Integration and Trade, he also served as Secretary to the Union of South American Nations (2006-08) and as President Evo Morales' delegate to the Strategic Reflection Committee for South American Integration (2006). An activist as well as a diplomat, Solón has worked for many years with different social organizations, indigenous movements, workers unions, student associations, human rights and cultural organizations in Bolivia. <br>
<br>Mr. Solón interview at Democracy Now: <br>
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<br><br><br>Julio Escalona is the Adjunct Ambassador of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to the United Nations. He holds degrees in Economics, Geopolitics and Environmental Issues. He is the former Director of the School of Economics and former head of the Department of Human Development at Central University of Venezuela (UCV) in Caracas. Escalona is also Professor of Economics, General Economic History, Economic Education in Latin America, Contemporary Marxism and Contemporary Social Problems. He has coordinated research seminars on economic integration, local economies, local development, alternative technologies, and has been a participant and guest lecturer at seminars, forums and academic institutions in Peru, Brazil, Japan, Paris, Mexico and the US.<br>
<br>Some articles by Escalona about Climate Change, globalization and international issues: <br>
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<br>Charles Derber is a Professor of Sociology and former Director of Social Economy and Social Justice Graduate Programs at Boston College. Derber is a prolific writer, offering not only sociological critiques but alternative visions for development. His recent books focus on climate change, capitalism, globalization, terrorism, the culture of hegemony, and the power of multinational corporations. His op-eds, essays, and interviews have appeared in The Boston Globe, Newsweek, Business Week, Time, Newsday, and other magazines. He frequently makes appearances on television and talk radio, including National Public Radio. His works include “Greed to Green: Solving Climate Change and Remaking the Economy” (2010).<br>
<br>Derber speaks on connections between climate change, militarism and the economy:<br>
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<br>Charles Derber Speaks at IDEAS Boston 2009 <br>
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<br><br>These are comments on his new book, From Greed to Green:<br>“Charles Derber’s urgent call to action on climate change connects to realistically upbeat ways to help resolve our energy, peace, and employment challenges. To read this book is to react with personal and social action."<br>
—Ralph Nader<br><br>"There's no way to solve climate change without also shifting, in profound ways, our idea of what constitutes success and growth and progress. This is the right book at the right—and crucial moment.”<br>
—Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature and creator of the student-based "Step It Up" campaign<br><br>Event sponsored by The Majority Agenda Project and the Consulate General of Venezuela in Boston<br>Co-sponsored by the Sociology Department - Boston College
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