Workshop on the Ecological Debt  
INPEG Alternative Forum   

Dates:  Saturday 23 & Sunday 24 of September 2000 
Hours:  09:00 to 12:30 & 14:30 to 18:00 
Organizers: FOEI, Acción Ecológica, Institute for Third World Ecological Studies, INPEG (Cz). 
Funders: HIVOS, FOEI. 
Place:  Cultural House Vltavska 
Vltavska street 
 

Objectives:

• Analyze the history and extent of the ecological debt industrialized countries have with the countries in the Third World and how the debt continues to plunder them.
• Become familiar with cases of the Ecological Debt in various Third World countries in order to demonstrate the magnitude of the ecological debt; understand its similar dynamics (with respect to the external debt); understand its social and environmental impacts; and reclaim environmental justice.
• Form the Ecological Debt Creditors Club of Third World Communities.

Agenda 

• Saturday 23

9:00 to 12:30

 Key speeches

• Ecological Debt and Globalization 

Ricardo Navarro  
President of FOEI 
 
• Ecological Debt 

Joan Martínez Alier  
International Campaign for the Recognition and Reclaim 
for the Ecological Debt 

Cases of the Ecological Debt in Asia 

Case of resistance for the increase of the Ecological Debt: 
The case of Nagarahole National Park 
Raajen Singh - India 
 

• Plenary 

14:30 to 18:00 

Key Speeches 

• Ecological History and Ecological Debt 

José Augusto Padua,  
Promotor of the Ecological Debt Creditors Club 
• External Debt and Ecological Debt 

Aurora Donoso  
Acción Ecológica.  Coordinator of the Ecological Debt Campaign 

Cases of the Ecological Debt in Latin America: 

Case of resistance for the increase of the Ecological Debt: 
Chixoy Dam 
Cristobal Osorio Sánchez, Maya Community, Guatemala 
 

• Plenary 

Sunday 24  
09:00 a 12:30 

Key speeches 

• The Southern Jubilee and the Ecological Debt 

Alejandro Bendaña  
Jubilee South 

• Ecological Debt and Climate Change 

Natalia Arias  
Third World Ecological Studies Institute 

Cases of the Ecological Debt in Africa 

Case of resistance for the increase of the Ecological Debt: 
Chad-Cameroon Pipeline 
Samuel Nguiffo – Center of Environment and Development FOE Cameroon 
Mainkeol Djeralar - Chad 
 
 

• Plenary 

Special meeting for the conformation of  
Third World Ecological Debt Creditors Club.  

Date:   Monday, September 25 
Schedule:   9:00 a 12:30 
Place:  Hotel Standart. 
Pristavni 2, Prague 7 
Telf.  420-2-87 65 41 

Plenary to discuss the agreement and function of the Ecological Debt Creditors Club of Third World Communities. 

Public Forum   
“A Different Message”  
Ecological debt panel  
Launching the Ecological Debt Creditors Club of Third World Communities  

Date:  Monday 25 de September 
Schedule: 17:30 to 19:30 
Place:   City Library  (Mestska knihovna) 
Marianske namesti 1, Praha 1 
(Staronmestska – metro A) 
 
 

Convenors and organisers: 

• FOEI/Acción Ecológica/ International Campaign to Recognise and Reclaim the Ecological Debt, Institute for Third World Ecological Studies (Instituto de Estudios Ecologistas del Tercer Mundo) 

Pannelists:

• Farida Akhter (Asia)  “Ecological Debt in Asia”

Member of Ubining (Bangladesh). Member of Diverse Woman for Diversity. Expert in Population Politics. 
• Isaac Osuoka (Africa)  “Ecological Debt in Africa”

Member of Environmental Rights Action. Friends of the Earth Nigeria. Oilwatch African Coordinator 
• Lorenzo Muelas (Latin America)  “Ecological Debt in Latin America”

Ex Gobernor of the Guambiano People. Member of Parliament 1991 and Senator from 1994-1998, Representing the Indigenous Movement of Colombia.

Invited:

• Ricardo Navarro (FOEI)

President of FOE International. Goldman Award 1996. President of CESTA (El Salvador) 
• Grazia Francescano (Italian Green Party)

Italian Green Party Deputy. 
• Chris Alberty (Ground Work)

South Africa Environmental Justice Movement. 
• Alejandro Bendaña (Jubilee South)

 Member of the Co-ordination Committee of Southern Jubilee 
 
 

Rapporteurs: 

•  Aurora Donoso, Acción Ecológica FOE Ecuador

President of Acción Ecológica. Coordinator of the International Campaign for Recognize and Reclaim the Ecological Debt. 
• Joan Martínez Alier, Spain

Editor of Ecología Política Magazine. Rector of the Institute for Third World Ecological Studies. International Campaign for Recognize and Reclaim the Ecological Debt.