Land is Life funds indigenous-led campaigns for change and offers strategic help to indigenous organizations. We work for the recognition of indigenous peoples’ human, economic, social, cultural, territorial and environmental rights.
INDIGENOUS VOICES ON CLIMATE CHANGE:
Changing the Climate Change Discourse - In assuming their rightful role as equal partners in humankind’s search for solutions, indigenous peoples are leading the way to true climatic adaptation—but they are also providing living arguments for prevention without delay. Right now, in defiance of such important international instruments as the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, global policy makers have paid scant attention to demands of indigenous peoples, limiting their participation in climate change negotiations to the status of observers.
Coordinated by Land is Life, Conversations With the Earth is a multimedia collaboration conveying indigenous voices on climate change through participatory video, print journalism, photography, and an interactive website. Conversations With the Earth is working with a range of indigenous communities living in critical ecosystems around the world to convey 1) The impacts of climate change on indigenous communities worldwide; 2) The unintended consequences of officially-sanctioned mitigation efforts on local livelihoods; 3) The role of traditional knowledge in developing appropriate responses to climate change.
For more info: www.conversationsearth.org
