A. Shelters should retain
broad discretion in
adoption and placement decisions, provided that
adoption policies and decisions should not discriminate against or disparately
impact minority or underserved populations.
The topics were
broad but there was a clear premise ¨ change the system, not the climate ¨, and the outcome of discussion during these days is the Margarita Declaration consisting of 62 points some on specific issues within the climate change negotiations, as well as other crosscutting issues which delegates at the UNFCCC usually do not take into account such as the
impact on education, food sovereignty, the rights of Mother Earth, the
adoption of new ways of life unattached to the idea of development and intergenerational exchange as solutions to the rising global temperatures and its disastrous effects.