Declaración de Lima

The Lima Declaration, issued during the 2014 People's Summit, rejects market-based climate mechanisms and the 'green economy' as false solutions driven by capital. It demands the recognition of historical ecological debts owed by developed nations to the Global South, the protection of ancestral territories from extractive industries, and a transition to a feminist, communal, and agroecological economic model. The statement specifically calls for a global financial transaction tax and compensation for non-industrialized countries that avoid exploiting fossil fuels, while criticizing the Peruvian government's role as COP 20 president for prioritizing private investment over human and environmental rights.

• The declaration explicitly rejects market-based mechanisms and 'green economy' initiatives as 'false solutions' to the climate crisis, specifically naming Clean Development Mechanisms (MDL), REDD projects, genetically modified organisms, biofuels, geoengineering, large hydroelectric projects, nuclear power, fracking, and climate-smart agriculture.
• The authors demand that developed countries be held accountable for their historical and ecological debt to the Global South, specifically calling for justice regarding environmental damage caused by corporations such as Newmont, Doeran in Peru, and Chevron-Texaco in the Amazon.
• The document proposes specific financial and policy mechanisms to support a just transition, including a global tax on international financial transactions and a debate on 'avoided net emissions' to compensate non-industrialized countries for not exploiting fossil fuels.
• The declaration argues that effective climate action is impossible without supporting small-scale family and peasant farming, agrarian reform, and agroecological production free from transgenic seeds and agrotóxicos, noting that family farming provides over 70% of the world's food.
• The People's Summit criticizes the Peruvian government for its inconsistency as the COP 20 president, alleging that it has lowered environmental and labor standards to favor private investment and has repressed indigenous and environmental activists.

APA

admin (2014). Declaración de Lima. Friends of the Earth International. https://www.foei.org/es/declaracion-de-lima/

Chicago

admin. Declaración de Lima. Friends of the Earth International, 2014. https://www.foei.org/es/declaracion-de-lima/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{admin2014declaracin, author = {admin}, title = {{Declaración de Lima}}, publisher = {Friends of the Earth International}, year = {2014}, month = dec, url = {https://www.foei.org/es/declaracion-de-lima/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }