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FIELD at Indigenous Peoples Summit

From 20-24 April, 2009, the Indigenous Peoples' Global Summit on Climate Change took place in Anchorage, Alaska. FIELD provided strategic advice on how to bring the concerns of indigenous groups into the climate change negotiations.

Organised by the Inuit Circumpolar Council, the event brought together indigenous representatives from the Arctic, North America, Asia, Pacific, Latin America, Africa, Caribbean and Russia, as well as international observers. The purpose of the summit was to develop key messages and recommendations to be articulated to the world at the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Copenhagen, Denmark in December 2009.

 

At the summit FIELD presented its paper on ‘Ways for Indigenous Peoples' groups to advance adaptation concerns and solutions through international fora' (presentation available here). The paper was commissioned by the Inuit Circumpolar Council, with support of The Christensen Fund.

 

For more background information, summit webcast and the final declaration visithttp://www.indigenoussummit.com.