Kommentarer på Exit Yasuni-ITT prosjektet: slutten på en latinamerikansk miljødrøm 2016-08-12T11:12:03+02:00https://www.sum.uio.no/forskning/blogg/norlablogg/exit-yasuni-itt-prosjektet-slutten-pa-en-latinamerikansk-miljodrom.html?vrtx=comments-feedanonym@webid.uio.no om «Exit Yasuni-ITT prosjektet: slutten på en latinamerikansk miljødrøm»https://www.sum.uio.no/forskning/blogg/norlablogg/exit-yasuni-itt-prosjektet-slutten-pa-en-latinamerikansk-miljodrom.html#comment-1211anonym@webid.uio.no2013-08-21T00:45:00+02:002013-08-21T00:45:00+02:00<p>Kommentar fra Joan Martínez Allier</p> <p>Jeg har fått følgende kommentar skrevet av Joan Martínez Allier, miljøkonom, kjent for blant annet Environmentalism of the Poor, og en som har studert miljøet i den andinske regionen i årevis. Jeg har fått den på e-post men fått tillatelse til å gjengi den her og synes den gir nytt perspektiv og bakgrunn for det som har skjedd: </p><p>BLAME PRESIDENT CORREA</p><p> As it was expected since February 2013 when president Correa won again the presidency of Ecuador, and even before given his track record since 2009 of internally boycotting the Yasuni ITT initiative, oil drilling has been announced in the ITT fields inside the Yasuni National Park in Ecuador. There is already oil extraction in blocks 16, 31 inside the Park already. The ITT is the last one to fall (depending now on the popular reaction in Ecuador and around the world).</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">Correa on 15th August blamed the rest of the world for not providing funds amounting to 3.6 billion dollars over 12 years (and therefore about one billion for the first three years) since the Trust Fund under UNDP auspices was formed on 3rd August 2010. True, some foreigners (and particularly minister of cooperation Dirk Niebel from Germany) bear a part of the blame. Norway and its Oil Fund (swimming in oil money) refused to help. </span></p><p>The proposal was for Ecuador to renounce to extraction of about 850 million barrels of oil (about 9 days of world extraction), preserve unparalled biodiversity, preserve the rights of local indigenous peoples, and avoid carbon emissions of about 410 million tons of CO2. Ecuador asked for about half the forgone revenues of over 7 billion USD at present value. Hence the figure of 3.6 billion USD for outside contribution, under principles of co-responsability. Up to now, the money collected amounts only to tens of millions dollars in actual fact, plus formal promises of about 300 million, which is not bad.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">Correa now stated solemnly yesterday in Quito, "we have waited long enough", "the world has failed us", we need the oil to fight poverty, no damage will be done to the environment, the oil in ITT is worth nearly 20 billion dollars at present value, and a few other lies. He dismissed art. 71 of the 2008 Constitution of Ecuador giving rights to nature. In fact, Correa has failed the world.</span></p><p>It is well known that president Correa himself never liked the proposal that came from environmental groups like Acción Ecológica and others in Ecuador and from Alberto Acosta, when he was minister for energy and mines in 2007. True, Correa has sometimes spoken eloquently in favour of the Yasuni ITT Initiative. But in practice in December 2009 he boycotted the signature of the MoU for the Trust Fund with UNDP, he did not go to the COP in Copenhagen himself where this signature ceremony was to take place in front of the world press, he then forced the resignation of the competent Ecuadorian team (Roque Sevilla, Yolanda Kakabadse) and his own minister for foreign relations, ecological economist Fander Falconi. Later, in August 2010, when the Trust Fund was finally set up, he did not appear at the signature of the agreement with UNDP in Quito, he merely sent his vicepresident. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">In the meantime since 2010 feeble attempts have been made by a second rate team in Quito to collect some funds from abroad, while preparations in situ for drilling in Tiputini were increasingly obvious for all to see. Now, the only hope that remains is the reaction from the people of Ecuador. The Yasuni ITT initiative has been very popular inside the country. Fander Falconí, who rejoined the government in 2011, has resigned again. It remains to be seen whether there are any other resignations from ministers from Alianza PAIS, Correa''s party.</span></p><p>We know that concentration of CO2 in the world is reaching 401 ppm, that nothing or too little is being done by the world political and economic powers against climate change, that the Amazon is being deforested in all the frontiers in Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela... The Amazon is one of the worst places in the world to drill for oil. There is danger to the lives of indigenous peoples. The ITT oil is of bad quality, heavy oil, and it will produce terrible pollution locally while, when burnt in the importing countries, it will of course produce CO2. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES">Joan Martinez-Alier<span style="color:#888888"><br clear="all"><br><br><span class="hoenzb">-- </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="color:#888888;mso-ansi-language:ES">---------</span><span lang="ES"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="color:#888888;mso-ansi-language:ES">Joan Martínez Alier</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="color:#888888;mso-ansi-language:ES">ICTA-Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="color:#888888;mso-ansi-language:ES">08193 Spain</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.ejolt.org/" target="_blank"><i><span lang="ES" style="color:#33CC00;mso-ansi-language:ES">www.ejolt.org</span></i></a></span><span lang="ES" style="color:#888888;mso-ansi-language:ES"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.eco2bcn.es/" target="_blank"><i><span lang="ES" style="color:#33CC00;mso-ansi-language:ES">www.eco2bcn.es</span></i></a></span><span lang="ES" style="color:#888888;mso-ansi-language:ES"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.ecologiapolitica.info/" target="_blank"><i><span style="color:#33CC00">www.ecologiapolitica.info</span></i></a><span style="color:#888888"><br></span><i><span style="color:#33CC00">New book: Ecological Economics from the Ground Up, 2012<br></span></i><a href="http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781849713993/" target="_blank"><i>http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781849713993/</i></a><i><span style="color:#33CC00"> </span></i><span style="color:#888888"></span></span></p> <p>Skrevet av: Benedicte Bull</p>