Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Worlds apart: Indigenous leaders abandon faith in UN to find climate solution

Click here to access article by Douglas Fischer from The Daily Climate
Organized by the Bozeman, Mont.- based American Indian Institute, the gathering drew about 65 people from across North America.

Here amid the hills and mesas that painter Georgia O'Keeffe made famous, these elders presented a different palette with which to look at environmental woes. They placed little faith in the weighty United Nations process that opened Monday
[COP19] and will draw thousands of people to Warsaw over the next two weeks to try to find a way to stem emissions of greenhouse gases.