"There is a lot left to learn from Indigenous Peoples”

In this video, Indigenous people highlight the crucial role they have to play in tackling the climate crisis.

Indigenous peoples have achieved where the industrialized world has failed: they have mastered the art of living a sustainable life centred on respecting, rather than exploiting, nature. It’s no wonder that 80% of the world’s biodiversity is found on Indigenous lands.

And yet, for too long the world’s Indigenous peoples have been sidelined from climate crisis discussions and their knowledge and expertise dismissed as “primitive".

What’s more, climate crisis “mitigation measures”, such as “nature-based solutions”, all too often result in Indigenous peoples being evicted from their ancestral territories, and their lives destroyed - much like the climate crisis itself.