Bali, December 2007
OilWatch report
A new energy and development model that proposes leaving oil underground is here presented as the only sensible way to confront the today´s challenges and oppose the emissions market scheme as a way to confront climate change. It is an ecological model to replace the “eco-illogical” model, imposed under the free market paradigm of unlimited growth. The proposal was presented by Ecuador in 2007, at a time when the race to extract oil from the most distant frontiers -the most vulnerable and fragile areas of the planet- threatens us all, because it has caused an unprecedented climate crisis and conditions of extreme impoverishmenting for the majority of the world´s developing economies. See full text, pdf format.
CHAPTER 1: THE PROPOSAL
Leaving crude oil underground
New frontiers
Ecuador: Yasuní National Park
Timor Leste
Mauritania: an ecological call
Bolivia: Madidi National Park
Indonesia: Lorentz National Park
Nigeria: no more oil blocks
CHAPTER 2: THE YASUNÍ MODEL
Yasuní National Park
The Iishpingo-Tambococha-Tiputini (ITT) Project
Predictable impacts of the oil activities in Yasuní
Yasuní, one of the biodiversity hotspots of the world
Tagaeri and Taromenane peoples, societies of abundance
CHAPTER 3: BEYOND THE VALUE
Yasuní National Park
The hidden costs of petroleum
The proposal of the oil left underground
The invisible impacts
Global warming
CHAPTER 4: THE GEOPOLITICS OF OIL
Oil and the genesis of the capitalist civilization
Global end of oil
Twentieth century wars
CHAPTER 5: TECHNO-FIXES
Techno-fixes
Cutting-edge technology
Waste management
The geopolitics of agrofuels
CHAPTER 6: A NORTH-SOUTH VISION
Common but differentiated responsabilities
Mitigating emissions or mitigating impacts
Carbon trading
Kyoto has failed
Oil policies from the south
CHAPTER 7: DECLARATIONS
Kyoto failure... oil ignored deliberately
Declaration on behalf of de-developmentism
The international eco-logical call
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