Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change
Report from the Arctic
by Sarah James
Introduction by Dune Lankard, Alaskan indigenous social entrepreneur and Bioneers board member
FRIDAY PLENARY: October 16, 2009
9:00am – 1:00pm
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The revered Gwich’in Elder from Alaska, who has won many awards for her work to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from oil drilling, including the Goldman Environmental Prize, depicts how her people are being severely impacted on the front lines of rapid climate change, and how they are responding.

