Commentaire de la Déclaration finale de la Conférence Mondiale des Peuples sur le Changement Climatique et les Droits de la Terre-Mère

Abstract

The Final Declaration of the World Conference of Peoples on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth of April 22, 2010, proclaimed in Cochabamba, Bolivia, does not cease to claim a new relationship of men to the earth, and puts forward for this purpose a singular normative model, that of “Mother Earth”. In doing so, it makes indigenous peoples the other of Western civilization, a fantasized incarnation of a form of repulsion or model. This otherness is also that of the law, since the declaration questions one of the foundations of Western legal constructions, in this case the notion of private property. But understanding the scope of this declaration also requires us to return, from a historical point of view, to the meaning and legitimacy of this type of declaration and assembly, and to determine in whose name they speak.

Keywords

• climate
• environment
• altermondialism
• international law
• property