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Friends of the Earth International (FoEI), founded in 1971 by four members of the Friends of the Earth International (FoEI), is a non-profit organization. organizations in France, Sweden, England and the U.S., is the environmental federationtion of the base with 73 national member groups and millions of individual and corporate members. followers around the globe.

Our vision is of a peaceful and sustainable world founded on societies living in harmony. with nature. We want a society of interdependent people who live with dignity and in where equity and human and people’s rights are realized, a society in which the rights of all peoples are based on the sovereignty and participation of the peoples, as well as on the justiciability of the people.social, environmental, and social and environmental and gender equality, free from all forms of domination and exploitation such as the neoliberalism, globalization, neocolonialism and militarism. We believe that our girls and children will have a better future because of what we do.

Friends of the Earth Latin America and the Caribbean, Atalc

Since the International Federation has regional expressions, we are part of Friends of the Federation. Earth AmériAtalc, which brings together FoEI member organizations in 14 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. Latin America and the Caribbean. Our regional and international positions are informed and strengthened by our work with the communities and for ouralliances with indigenous peoples and peasant movements, unions, human rights groups, and others. ATI and the Latin American membership we work with towards a system change that will enable us to achieve our vision of a peaceful and sustainable world based on in societies that live in harmony with nature. These system changes require recognition of ecological limits; re–balancing power relations, in particular the growing power of private companies; and the construction of a newThe sovereignty of the peoples. We are committed to the defense of the territory and the change of policies, contributing to mobilization popular, supporting the processes of resistance, and encouraging the concrete construction of alternatives–not only towards econoand sustainable ways but also towards a different form ofrelate to each other and to nature in a spirit of respect, solidarity, and humility.

Atalc is built on the work of member organizations in Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador, Honduras, El Salvador, Honduras and El Salvador. Salvador, Costa Rica, Colombia, Paraguay, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Curaçao, Haiti, Grenada and Ecuador, which conduct denunciation and awareness-raising campaigns, joint work and support to affected communities and peoples in the territories, participatory research on issues relevant to social ecology, and political incidence to promote laws and projects that respond to the needs and demands of the peoples, and to stop or reverse laws and projects that respond to interests and that go against social and environmental justice.

More information at: www.atalc.org
Facebook: @foeint.es
Twitter: @FoEint_es

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Network in resistance to monoculture tree plantations in Latin American countries. Although its activity is less than that of other confluences, its importance lies in being able to dynamize joint actions with its member groups, as well as to count on judicious analyses from others, which complement our criteria construction and political positioning. The role of Censat Water Viva has been contributing to advocacy related to conflicts related to forestry plantations in Colombia.

More information at: https://www.wrm.org.uy/es/temas/red-latinoamericana-contra-los-monocultivos-de-arboles
Facebook: Latin American Network Against Monoculture Tree Plantations – Recoma –

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The Global Gas and Oil Network (GGON) is composed of civil society organizations that seek to support global efforts to halt the expansion of fossil fuels in pursuit of a fair and equitable decrease in fossil fuel extraction. existing. GGON supports efforts to halt the construction of aThe company has also been involved in the development of new infrastructure for oil and gas extraction, including campaigns to limit public and private financing of hydrocarbon development, as well as legal, research, and communication strategies.

It has a website created to provide resources for policymakers, advocates, researchers, activists and community members tracking the shift of our energy system from oil and gas to clean and socially just alternatives.

GGON recognizes that a managed transition away from oil and gas production, along with coal, will be necessary to meet the climate targets to which governments have committed themselves under the framework of the Paris Agreement. This change is technologically possible. If managed equitably, it will bring long-term positive health benefits, the well-being and human rights of communities around the world. But to bring it to This will require a profound change in political, economic and social policies and priorities at the global level.

More information at: www.ggon.org

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The Colombia Free of Fracking Alliance, ACLF, was created in September 2017 in the city of Barrancabermeja, Santander, with the purpose of halting the advance of that technique for exploiting hydrocarbons in Colombia. It is an articulation of around 100 social organizations, environmental, peasant, indigenous, workers, students, fishermen, and human rights groups fighting against the implementation of fracking in Colombia, as well as the exploitation of unconventional oilfields, YNC.

This articulation has achieved a de facto moratorium on fracking in Colombia and, currently (2022), to stop the implementation of the so-called Integral Research Pilot Projects, PPII, as well as to promote a Law of the Republic that prohibits the exploitation of YNC.

More information at: www.colombialibredefracking.wordpress.com
Twitter: @ColombiaNoFrack
Facebook: @AlianzaColombiaLibreFromFracking
Instagram: @colombianofrack

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The Caribbean Coalition was born in 2019 as a space for the confluence of organizations (Cinep, Cajar, AIDA, PAS and Censat Agua Viva) that we work in the departments of La Guajira and Cesar, with the objective of politically influencing the denunciation and monitoring of coal mining from a regional perspective against corporate impunity, prevent the expansion of the extractive frontier and contribute to a just energy transition.

Since 2021, we have promoted the Accidental Commission to monitor large-scale coal mining in the Colombian Caribbean in coordination with a sector of the progressive Senate bench.

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Fair Finance is an international civil society network with more than 100 partners and allies, which began to take shape in 2009 and currently has active coalitions in different countries and sub-regions, the most recent being Latin America and Colombia.

«We use a rigorous methodology to evaluate, report and campaign for policies and more responsible investment practices. Through the comparative evaluation of policies and financial institutions’ investment practices in critical areas such as human rights and climate impact, we enable consumers and policyholders to demand more socially responsible, fair and sustainable investments.»

More information at: Fair Finance International | Fair Finance International (fairfinanceguide.org)
Twitter: @FairFinanceInt

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This is one of the thematic and regional forums, derived from the World Social Forum, with a relevance, pertinence and its own dynamics. More than a forum, as a moment of meeting and discussion, it is works with the vision of action and process in the Andean-Amazonian territory, which is an agreement established since the 8th version in Peru. Thus, it is a confluence for the defense and the care of the Amazon.

There are national subcommittees in eight of the nine Pan-Amazonian countries, since English Guyana has hardly any participation. individual. Censat Agua Viva has been involved since 2010 and since 2 years ago.017 took on a more active role in the international and national committees, when it led part of the organization of the 9th edition of Fospa, as part of the political, management and finance and methodological committees; we continue to participate in the latter at present.

Our priorities include the analysis, positioning and proposals for action around the green economy and the financialization of nature in the Amazon.

More information at: https://www.forosocialpanamazonico.com/
Facebook: @FospaOfficial /
Twitter: @FospaOfficial
Instagram: @fospaoficial

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Coalition of indigenous peoples’ organizations and NGOs in all continents, working for forests and the rights of their inhabitants. Censat Agua Viva is a member group of the from the foundation and to that extent can carry out actions or research in the region and provides inputs or participates in international advocacy. Some of the contributions received from the Coalition encompass a broad vision and analysis, It has 123 member groups in 70 countries, with active participation and advocacy in various international and multilateral forums related to forests and forests.

From Censat Agua Viva we have served as focal point for Latin America and the Caribbean and also as President of the coalition.

More information at: https://globalforestcoalition.org/
Facebook: @globalforestcoalition
Twitter: @GFC_forests
Instagram: @global.forest

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Energy and Equity is a working group that aims, through a collective work, to elaborate and share conceptual tools following two objectives: to deepen analysis and critique of the current energy model and contribute to the construction of regional and local alternatives to to the hegemonic development model, in close relation with the struggles that are taking place in the region to make another model of society possible.

This group is made up of organizations such as Taller Ecologista (Argentina), Red de pobreza energética (Chile), Acción Ecológica (Ecuador), Observatorio de Ecología Política de Venezuela (Venezuela), Censat Agua Viva, among others.

More information at: www.energiayequidad.com
Facebook: Energía y Equidad – Grupo de trabajo
Twitter: @EnergiaEquidad
Instagram: @energiayequidad

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This network, whose main focus has been the fight against the external debt of Latin American countries, seeks to connect this issue, in analysis and possible alternatives, with other associated phenomena, such as ecological debt or militarization, focusing on these three axes.

As Censat Agua Viva we were participating as an observer from 2019 to 2022, when we became members, focused on the axis of socio-ecological justice and in the region. Andean. The main purpose is to promote debates against the financialization of nature and the to nurture our analysis with other approaches.

More information at: www.jubileosuramericas.net
Facebook: @RedJubileoSurAmericas
Twitter: @JubileoSurA
Instagram: @jubileo_sur_americas

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It is a space of confluence between non-governmental organizations and communities of La Guajira. affected by coal mining. Participants included Censat Agua Viva, Cinep, Cajar, AIDA and leaders of the communities of La Gran Parada, El Rocío, Provincial, Tabaco, Manantialito, among others.

In this space, legal, political, communicative and pedagogical strategies have been promoted in the defense of the territory of southern La Guajira. During the last few years the work has been focused on the case of the Bruno stream, the effects on the health of the region’s population, and to halt mining expansion projects in the region.

More information at: www.extractivismoencolombia.org
Facebook: @laguajirahabla
Twitter: @laguajirahabla

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Oilwatch is a network that builds solidarity and promotes a common identity among the peoples of the global south in the quest to stop the expansion of fossil fuel extraction activities that degrade territories, socially and environmentally.

The creation of Oilwatch was inspired by the need to develop global strategies for communities affected by oil activities, to support their resistance processes and to work with the communities affected by oil activities. for sustainability and collective rights. We facilitate the exchange of information on the oil activities in each country, the different resistance movements and the oil campaigns in each country. against specific companies. This network was created in February 1996 in Quito, Ecuador with the presence of 15 organizations from: Nigeria, South Africa, Cameroon, Gabon, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Timor Leste and Ecuador.ntal, Mexico, Guatemala, Peru, Colombia and Brazil. Now, the network has members in more than 50 countries around the world, national and regional networks have been created in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and it also has organizations in the global north to support its activities.

More information at: https://www.oilwatch.org/
Twitter: @OilwatchI

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In 2006 Censat Agua Viva and organizations such as Asprocig, the Observatory of Environmental Conflicts, OCA, of the University of Caldas, Onuira and the Community Council of La Toma, founded the National Network of People Affected and Threatened by Dams, which later changed its name to the Living Rivers Movement.

The Colombian movement in defense of territories and people affected by dams, Movimiento Ríos Vivos, is an articulation of organizations and communities that have been stripped of their territories and their way of life due to the construction of hydroelectric plants, which advocates for the defense of the of their rights and to create dignified living conditions in the affected territories.

The current members are: Asoquimbo, Consejo Comunitario de La Toma, Comunidades Sembradoras de Aguas, Autonomías y Territorios, Setaa, Movimiento Social en Defensa de los Ríos Sogamoso y Chucurí and the Consejo Comunitario del río Anchicayá.

More information at: www.defensaterritorios.wordpress.com
Facebook: Ríos Vivos Colombia
Twitter: @riosvivoscol
Instagram: @rios_vivos_colombia

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The National Environmental Movement is a process of articulation of different grassroots social organizations, environmental platforms and Colombian NGOs that since 2017 have been promoting a national articulation space with the aim of continuing to strengthen the processes of defense of water, life and territories that oppose the imposition of mining, oil and hydroelectric projects throughout the national territory.

It focuses on promoting collective initiatives aimed at protecting the right of communities to participate in environmental matters, specifically in the mining-energy field. In this sense, it has accompanied popular consultation initiatives in various parts of the country and is currently promoting a bill for environmental participation in mining and energy issues.

The Movement is made up of grassroots social organizations from all over the country, from the departments of Cauca, Tolima, Antioquia, Quindío, Cundinamarca, among others. These include Comité Ambiental del Tolima, Cosajuca, Amar es más, Comité por la defensa del agua y la vida del Cauca, Censat Agua Viva, Extinction Rebellion, Semillas de agua, among others.

As part of the joint actions, the #FueraAnglogold Alliance has been created, which is a gathering of processes affected by this transnational company, seeking to denounce the violation of human, environmental and territorial rights caused by it and denounce its strategies of co-optation of the local population and capture of the State.

Facebook: @MovNalAmbiental
Twitter: @MovNalAmbiental

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This observatory brings together some of the most important organizations working on mining conflicts in the region, such as Justiça Nos Trilhos from Brazil, Cooperacción from Peru, Acción Ecológica from Ecuador, Centro Hondureño de Promoción para el Desarrollo Comunitario-Cehprodec, Observatorio Latinoaméricano de Conflictos Ambientales, Centro de Documentación e Información Bolivia-CEDIB, Red Muqui from Peru, Colectivo Voces Ecológicas from Panama, among others.

We are part of the Board of Directors and have actively participated both in updating the mining conflict database and in the preparation of the annual report on mining conflicts in the region, from a Colombian perspective.

OCMAL was formally created in March 2007 at a meeting held in Oruro, Bolivia, establishing as its main objective the defense of communities and populations that, exercising their local activities such as agriculture, livestock, forestry, fishing, tourism, housing and culture, are affected by the impacts of mining in the region.

This observatory focuses on studying and analyzing the expansion of metallic mining in the region, the role of the states in this expansion and the community responses that have been consolidated for the defense of the territories.

More information at: www.ocmal.org
Facebook: @OCMAL
Twitter: @conflictominero

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The Platform is an articulation of action and struggle, conformed by 30 movements, organizations and Latin American social networks that we have come together to address in an articulated manner the serious climate crisis, coordinationon of resistance to the current capitalist system and its false solutions to change. and to promote alternatives for a just transition at the national and local levels, driven by the by the peoples from the territories.

This initiative arises from the common diagnosis of the strategies implemented by governments to curb climate change and its causes, the actions of which have been completely ineffective, concentrated on technologies and market mechanisms that do not address the root causes ofand even worsen the problem. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) The Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC) and the various environment and climate negotiations that have been carried out have demonstrated an absolute failure in their objectives to reverse the destruction of the environment and climate change.the planet. Emissions emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases have increased, as has the global temperature. The The effects of climate change are becoming increasingly evident, especially for communities in the global south: floods, droughts, wildfires andloss of ice, accelerated sea level rise andlonger and more intense heat waves, with serious impacts on the material conditions that allow the reproduction of life and the health of the population, among others.

Large corporationsmultinational corporations and states that cause greenhouse gas emissions. and promoters of false solutions to climate change, as well as the system international financial institutions, maintain a strong influence over governments and the international financial system. Cmnucc, subordinating negotiations to their interests, violating human rights and the rights of nature. They avoid all responsibility for the damage they cause to the planet, pushing it towards collapse. and robustness of the climate system, while at the same time perpetuating andThe crisis has caused the crises.

In response to this, the Platform promotes permanent dynamics of action and advocacy, linked to the social and political processes of the countries of the region, with popular and territorial protagonism, to generate relevant impacts on the policies and positions of governments in the region and to weave joint efforts at the territorial level to address the climate problem in an effective, concrete and real way.

Facebook: @JusticiaClimaticaLA
Twitter: @pjclimatica

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This network brings together different Latin American organizations that work in the defense of social and environmental rights in the face of the violations generated by extractive mining projects, with emphasis on the particular effects on women.res. Networking seeks to have an impact on The objective is to document the specific damages caused by mining extractivism on women’s lives, disseminate information on the subject and strengthen women’s organizational processes, their processes of denunciation and social transformation.

Formed in 2004, the Network is currently made up of Acción Ecológica of Ecuador, Colectivo Casa of Bolivia, Grufides of Peru, Censat Agua Viva of Colombia, OLCA of Chile, ADES of El Salvador and the representation of one of the founders in Argentina.

More information at: www.redlatinoamericanademujeres.org
Facebook: @RedLatinoamericanaMujeresDefensoras
Twitter: @redlatmujeres
Instagram: @redmujeresdefensoras

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The VIDA Network (Inter-American Watch for the Defense of the Right to Water) was created in August in 2003, when 54 organizations from 16 countries in all regions of the worldthe American continent, we met in San Salvador to launch a hemispheric campaign to defend water as a public good and as a public good. a fundamental human right.

Consumer associations, women’s organizations, environmentalists, labor unions, human rights activists, religious, indigenous and social organizations currently make up the network: Fundación Abril, Asociación de Servicios Municipales de Saneamiento (Assemae), Observatorio Nacional de los Derechos Humanos (Observatorio Nacional de los Derechos Humanos), and other social organizations.Olho nos, Olho nos, and Olho nos, Olho nos. Ruralistas, Blue Planet Project, Fundación Chile Sustentable, Movimiento de Defensa por el Acceso to Water, Land and Environmental Protection (Modatima), Corporación Ecológica y Cultural Penca de Sábila, Censat Agua Viva, Acuavalle Workers Union, Sinstracuavalle, Enda Colombia, Asociación Comunitaria Unida por el Agua y la Agricultura, Acua, Center for Applied Studies in Ecology and Environmental Sustainability (ECOS), Food and Water Watch, Corporate Accountability, Coalición de Organizaciones Mexicanas por el Derecho al Agua (Coalition of Mexican Organizations for the Right to Water)(Comda), Water for All, Water for Life, National Federation of Water Workers (Comda), Water for All, Water for Life, National Federation of Water Workers (FNWWW) Potable Water and Sewerage (Fentap), and the National Commission in Defense of Water and Life (CNDL).dav).

More information at: https://laredvida.org/
Facebook: Red Vigilancia Interamericana por la Defensa y Derecho al Agua
Twitter: @LaRedVida1

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It is an articulation of Colombian civil society organizations that seek to put their efforts to the discussions, concerns, analysis and proposals in the face of the climate crisis to influence climate policies and achieve real commitments from the government to address climate change. climate. La integran Clima LAB, Pacto por el Clima, AIDA, Heinrich Böll Foundation, Climate Pact Process, AIDA, Heinrich Böll Foundation Comunidades Negras en Colombia-PCN, Cabildo Indígena Resguardo Kankuamo, Ecolectiva, Asociación Ambiente y Sociedad, Yala Censat Agua Viva since 2019.