An analysis of the Peoples’ Agreement that emerged from the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, held from 20 to 22 April in Cochabamba (Bolivia) may lead us to think that the gender issue was not present at that Conference. Although in general terms it may be true that a gender perspective was not substantially incorporated into the conclusions of the working groups, gender language can be found in some of the texts.
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With the Cochabamba Conference, held after the Copenhagen UN climate conference and organised eight months before the next Conference of the Parties (COP) in Mexico, the Bolivians have created a vital opportunity at all levels: at the level of social and political movement, at the governmental level, and most importantly, in the public sphere and in the imaginations of peoples everywhere.
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