Indigenous Peoples, Climate Change and Conservation

Call in to apprehend Indigenous Leaders from the April 20-24 Global Alaska Summit Discuss Climate Change Impacts on Their Communities and How Conserving Nature Must be a Part of Any Climate Solution. due attention to the rights and interests

(Vocus/PRWEB ) April 20, 2009 --

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When:
Monday, April 20, 2009; 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. ET

Dial-in Number:
1.   U.S., Alaska and Canada: 888-334-2993; actor passcode: 3494191
2.   International Toll Free:
 

Germany: 0 800 181 9013 Indonesia: 001 803 017 1058 United Kingdom: 0 800 404 7656
Who:
 
Ben Namakin, Program Manager for Environmental Education & Awareness with the Conservation Society of Pohnpei in Micronesia and Steering Committee affiliate with the Indigenous Peoples’ Global Summit on Climate Change Stephen MacLean, affiliate of the Inupiat Community in Alaska and attention affairs administrator with The Nature Conservancy Johnson Cerda, Quichua baton from the Ecuadorian Amazon and Indigenous Advisor for Conservation International’s Indigenous and Traditional Peoples Program Fiu Elisara, Director of the O Le Siosiomanga Society, an NGO that promotes the astute use of accustomed assets and attention in Samoa Egberto Tabo, General Coordinator of the Coordinating Body of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin (COICA) Joanna Durbin, Director of the Climate, Community and Biodiversity Alliance (CCBA) who will allege on the development of new REDD acceptance standards that account the rights of Indigenous Peoples
Background:
As governments about the apple agitation how to abode climate change, aboriginal communities will be a allotment of the aboriginal and hardest hit. Rising sea levels are displacing bags in island nations, while droughts and floods are antibacterial the accustomed assets aboriginal communities await aloft for survival.

Indigenous communities accept continued played a basic role in attention the ecosystems that abutment association as a whole. Much of the world’s actual forests are on aboriginal lands, and studies accept apparent that in Brazil, deforestation in aboriginal areas is lower than in government-run adequate areas.

As the threats of altitude change grow, abounding aboriginal communities are demography action to conserve their basic accustomed assets – from the mangroves that absorber them adjoin storm surges, to the apricot reefs that accommodate them aliment to the forests that accumulation apple-pie bubbler water. By attention forests and added accustomed areas that serve as carbon sinks, aboriginal communities are aswell allowance lower the world’s greenhouse emissions.

At UN affairs in Bonn and Poznan, aboriginal issues drew above attention, and altitude legislation afresh apparent in the US Congress accurately calls for “due attention to the rights and interests” of aboriginal peoples. Any altitude band-aid have to accommodate candid allowances to aboriginal communities and cover their 18-carat and able engagement.

Hundreds of aboriginal leaders will accumulate in Alaska April 20-24 at the Indigenous Peoples’ Global Summit on Climate Change. And in May, the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues will accommodated in New York.

The teleconference will advice set the date for advancing altitude negotiations and how aboriginal peoples will play a basic role.

The Nature Conservancy is a arch attention alignment alive about the apple to assure ecologically important acreage and amnion for attributes and people. To date, the Conservancy and its added than one actor associates accept been amenable for the aegis of added than 18 actor acreage in the United States and accept helped bottle added than 117 actor acreage in Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific. Visit The Nature Conservancy on the Web at www.nature.org.