Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa is asking the international community to pay him to leave oil in the ground beneath the Yasuni National Park â possibly the worldâs most biodiverse region and home to three indigenous communities who live in voluntary isolation. We speak to Georgina Donati of the Yasuni Green Gold campaign and ponder the wider significance of this proposal.
Produced by Phil England for Climate Radio. www.climateradio.co.uk If you broadcast the programme, itd be great if you could drop me a line to let me know at phil@switch-off.co.uk. If you broadcast the series - even better! The current series will be weekly until the end of December 2008.
Yasuni Green Gold Campaign www.yasunigreengold.org Yasuni Depends on You www.sosyasuni.org/en/Campaign ITT Project Option 1? Conserving Crude Oil in the Subsoil (Oilwatch) www.sosyasuni.org/en/files/ow_itt_proposal_v8-ingles.pdf Keep Oil Underground (Oilwatch) www.oilwatch.org/doc/documentos/Keep_oil_underground.pdf Southern Peoples Ecological Debt Creditors Alliance www.ecologicaldebt.org Naomi Klein speaking in London, 19 May 2008 www.vimeo.com/1236123 Resist Network â Naomi Klein interview www.resistnetwork.com/interviews#naomi_klein Scientists Concerned For Yasuni National Park www.saveamericasforests.org/Yasuni/Science/SciConcrndfrYasuni.pdf Douglas Quin âCaratingaâ www.dqmedia.com/recordings01.html
The 300-350 Show is named after what is now believed to the safe level in parts per million (ppm) of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. This finding is based on the work of James Hansen and his team in a paper titled "Target Atmospheric CO2: Where Should Humanity Aim." http://arxiv.org/abs/0804.1126
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