There is no doubt that climate change is a reality that affects us all in an increasingly palpable way., harder to ignore and more pressing. As our beloved Tenzin Ösel Hita mentioned during a teaching this weekend, planet Earth has no problem: It is humanity and the rest of living beings that have a problem. The Earth is strong, but if he gets sick, A good sneeze will be enough to make us disappear and stop bothering her..
At a time when the media and especially social networks are full of messages from leaders of environmental activism and images of the disastrous impact that human beings have on nature and on our animal brothers, very little is said about the so-called Third Pole. While the need to protect the North and South poles is something we all know, The attention that this third pole deserves and that is nothing other than the Tibetan plateau is barely claimed., a territory occupied in every way by the Chinese government. and because busy, read asphyxiated, also in every way.
¡Freedom for Tibet! is committed to ensuring that society and institutions understand the crucial importance of protecting this unique environment, not only for the mere fact of being truly unique, but because its degradation implies disastrous consequences, especially when it is a totalitarian regime like the Chinese one that actively and massively promotes and sponsors this degradation..
With this reason, This website facilitates the program of 2º Meeting “Climate Action for Tibet”, which will take place in Madrid next Saturday 7 December 2019. Please, Try to do everything in your power to attend the event and spread this information as much as possible.. Not only to make it easier for more people to attend and get informed, but so that Tibet, in every way, can regain the attention that it so deserves and so rarely receives.
The event is part of the Climate Action for the Roof of the World initiative (Climate Action for the Roof of the World), promoted by the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), and is organized jointly by the Casa del Tibet Foundation (Barcelona) and the Tibet Policy Institute, entity dependent on the CTA Information Department. It is part of the alternative activities organized on the occasion of COP25, the United Nations Conference on Climate Change that was scheduled to be held in Chile and which has been transferred to Spain due to the delicate situation in the South American country.
PROGRAM (descargar PDF)
17:00 – Presentation: Impact of climate change on the Tibetan plateau (Kai Mulller).
17:05 – The implications of melting permafrost (Martin Bursik, Former Minister of the Environment of the Czech Republic).
17:20 – The role of Tibetan culture and Buddhism in environmental protection (Venerable Thubten Wangchen, President of the House of Tibet and representative of the Tibetan government in exile before the European Parliament).
17:35 – The warming of the Tibetan plateau and the future of water in Asia (Dr. Martin A. Mills, Director of the Scottish Center for Himalayan Research).
17:50 – Possible factors for increasing cases of natural disasters in Tibet (Tempa Gyaltsen Zamlha, TPI Executive Head of Environment and Development).
18:05 – Questions and answers.
18:15 – Presentation: Current state of the environment on the Tibetan Plateau (Martin Bursik).
18:20 – Situation of nomadic herders in Tibet (Kyinzom Dhongdue, Executive Officer of the Tibetan Council of Australia).
18:35 – Excessive extraction of resources from Tibet (Kai Muller, Executive Director of the International Campaign for Tibet in Germany).
18:50 – The state of the Yarlung River (Brahmaputra) and its implications for the Indian subcontinent (Palm tree, del Tibetan Policy Institute).
19:05 – Zachu River State (Mekong) and its implications for Southeast Asia (Michael Buckley, author and director of the documentary “Meltdown in Tibet”, Canada).
19:20 – Questions and answers.
It will be at the Ateneo de Madrid: Prado Street, 21 (28014) Madrid (a few meters in front of the Congress of Deputies).
