United Nations University
Tokyo, Japan
19-Apr-2009
With the first climate change-related relocation of an Inuit village already underway, some 400 Indigenous People and observers from 80 nations are convening in Alaska for a UN-affiliated conference April 20-24 to discuss ways in which traditional knowledge can be used to both mitigate and adapt to climate change.
Co-sponsored by UN University and hosted by the Inuit Circumpolar Council, the Indigenous Peoples’ Global Summit on Climate Change is also designed to help strengthen the communities’ participation in and articulate messages and recommendations to the December UN climate change conference in Copenhagen, at which a successor agreement to the Kyoto protocol will be negotiated. The Summit will conclude Fri. April 24 with a declaration and action plan, and a call for world governments to fully include Indigenous Peoples in any post-Kyoto climate change regime adopted in Copenhagen.
Full news release text: www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-04/unu-ipa041309.php
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