Groups prepare joint statement on pollution impacts of North America industry.
Far from the hub of United Nations climate talks, environmentalists, labor organizers and human rights activists from around the world spent Monday at the Climate Justice Summit, preparing a joint statement on the impact of corporate polluters on developing countries and communities of color in North America. Then you add the consumption, and that is the biggest contributor to climate change. Participants described how local communities in every country where oil companies are operating, including the United States, Ecuador, Colombia and Nigeria, were fighting labor, health and environmental battles. It's an oversight organizers of the Summit hope to remedy by building on the momentum of the anti-globalization movement, born in Seattle, Washington one year ago. Any solution to climate change will have to have human rights, environmental rights and labor rights as central to that solution.