Submission by *Republic of Bolivia *to the Ad Hoc Working Group on
Long-term Cooperative Action under the [UN Framework Convention on
Climate Change] (AWG-LCA)

The climate debt of developed countries must be repaid, and this payment
must begin with the outcomes to be agreed in Copenhagen.
Developing countries are not seeking economic handouts to solve a
problem we did not cause. What we call for is full payment of the debt
owed to us by developed countries for threatening the integrity of the
Earth’s climate system, for over-consuming a shared resource that
belongs fairly and equally to all people, and for maintaining lifestyles
that continue to threaten the lives and livelihoods of the poor majority
of the planet’s population. This debt must be repaid by freeing up
environmental space for developing countries and particular the poorest
communities.
There is no viable solution to climate change that is effective without
being equitable. Deep emission reductions by developed countries are a
necessary condition for stabilising the Earth’s climate. So too are
profoundly larger transfers of technologies and financial resources than
so far considered, if emissions are to be curbed in developing countries
and they are also to realise their right to development and achieve
their overriding priorities of poverty eradication and economic and
social development. Any solution that does not ensure an equitable
distribution of the Earth’s limited capacity to absorb greenhouse gases,
as well as the costs of mitigating and adapting to climate change, is
destined to fail.

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