ANCHORAGE – Hundreds of indigenous people from around the world are gathering in Anchorage this week to discuss climate change and solutions to a warming planet. The Indigenous Peoples’ Global Summit on Climate Change, a five-day United Nations-affiliated conference, will run through Friday, with about 400 people from 80 nations expected to attend.
On the first full day of the conference on Monday, reports on climate change will be presented covering seven regions around the globe.
“Indigenous peoples have contributed the least to the global problem of climate change but will almost certainly bear the greatest brunt of its impact,” said Patricia Cochran, chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council, an organization representing approximately 150,000 Inuit of Alaska, Canada, Greenland, and Chukotka in Russia.
The council is hosting the event. While indigenous people are often “on the front lines” of the problem, Cochran said their voices are often not heard when discussing climate change. The summit intends to change that, she said.
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