Geneva-Hosted COP-26 Hub Event: “Indigenous People’s Rights and Climate Change in the Arctic”

Streamed as a webinar from the Geneva Hub, this session offers first-hand insights into the perspectives of Indigenous communities affected by climate change. Speakers discussed the need for emissions reductions, mitigation measures and adaptation strategies to protect vulnerable populations in the Arctic, and they highlighted how Indigenous peoples’ rights can be safeguarded in these projects.

Presenters from this session include Tabea Willi, campaign manager for the Arctic campaign at the Society for Threatened Peoples Switzerland, and Christoph Wiedmer, co-director of the Society for Threatened Peoples Switzerland. Rodion Sulyandziga is the director of the CSIPN (Centre for the Support of Indigenous Peoples of the North) and vice-chair of the UN EMRIP (Expert Mechanism for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples). He introduced the newly founded “Indigenous Peoples’ Platform on Traditional Knowledge and Adaptation to Climate Change”, a platform created to exchange experience in the field of climate monitoring and adaptation to climate change, based on traditional indigenous knowledge and in partnership with the scientific community.

https://www.gecryohub.ch/session/indigenous-peoples-rights-and-climate-change-in-the-arctic