Nusa Dua, Bali – More than 200 hundred people from four of the world's continents gathered here in a forum called Solidarity Village for a Cool Planet, which kicked off Friday at the Kampong CSO in Nusa Dua complex near the main climate change conference venue.

"The Solidarity Village for a Cool Planet will be a space for debates, assemblies, conferences, self-organized workshops and cultural events where global warming and its solutions will be discussed from a people's perspective," said Dani Setiawan, one the gathering's spokespeople.

The activities run from Dec. 7 to Dec. 10 and take place mostly at the Kampong CSO or the Civil Society Organizations area.

The kampong has been a place where non-governmental organization activists, indigenous people and peasants meet. The dominant position of these NGOs is one that criticizes the conference's direction, which they find has so far disregarded climate change justice.

The national coalition at the Solidarity Village writes a position paper highlighting the relationship between global injustice and climate talks. They see the foes in ecological justice are the agents of neo-colonialism and neo-liberalism like transnational corporations.

Therefore, they include debt cancellation discussions in the meeting as well as discussions on family farming and palm plantation.

The coalition comprises 14 national NGOs, including the Indonesian Peasant Union (SPI, formerly FSPI), Indonesian Fishermen's' Union (SNI), Institute for Global Justice, Women Solidarity (SP) and Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi).

There are 12 co-organizing international NGOs, which include the global network peasant movement, La Via Campesina, the federation of 70 environment and social organizations around the world, Friends of the Earth International (FOEI) as well as organizations from countries like the Philippines and Thailand.