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(Un)civil society and climate change politics in Latin America

Posted by Marie Karaisl on February 04, 2009
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Protests of the Movimiento Nacional en Defensa del Petroleo

“Yesterday here in Davos I heard three heads of state from Latin America seize leadership on “green” issues.” Nancy Birdsall’s (former vice-president of the Inter-American Development Bank) blog was full positive surprise. Apart from economic factors she attributes this leadership to “two decades of democracy, rising educational levels and civic activism” Funnily (or worringly), in [...]

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