UN summit in New York hears how resources needed for sustainable energy threaten Indigenous land and people
“It is common to hear the expression to ‘leave no one behind’. But perhaps those who are leading are not on the right path,” the forum’s chairman, Dario Mejia Montalvo, told delegates on Monday as the 12-day summit opened in New York in the first full convening since the pandemic outbreak.
As countries scramble to uphold pledges to keep global warming to 1.
Attendees listen during the 22nd session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issue at the United Nations headquarters in New York City on 20 April 2023.Gunn-Britt Retter of the Saami Council, an organization representing the Sámi peoples of Finland, Russia, Norway and Sweden, said she has been raising awareness about what she calls the “green colonialism” driving harmful sustainability projects on Sámi and Indigenous lands.
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