Naga community voice at Copenhagen
In the growing global climate crisis it’s indigenous communities who experience it’s worst adverse early impacts. Climate change is threatening indigenous livelihoods, culture and economy more than people of other regions.
Indigenous communities around the world looked to the Copenhagen climate summit to provide solutions to their growing, catastrophic problems. But the summit left these communities cold.
The final response to the destructive fury of climate change failed to include the voices of global indigenous communities, including Nagaland. Read more here.
The Peoples’ Coalition on Climate Change community charter of demands at the Copenhagen climate summit:
1) Demands for recognition of the diversity and integrity of farms, livestock, forest and seas as civilization assets
2) Endorsing multifunctional, ecological and diverse agriculture as a defence against climate change
3) Promoting traditional seeds
4) Focus on afforestation policies, encourage local plant species
5) Prevention of unreasonable extraction of ground water and promote local methods of water conservation
6) Respect and recognize pastoralism
7) Respect and recognize traditional fishers
8) Adopt measures to reverse negative environment impacts of development schemes, seek prior and informed consent from communities
9) Make government policies people-centric
10) Honour each members of community as frontline warriors against climate change
