Host Organisation

Center for Indigenous Peoples Research and Development

Description

Indigenous women are the most vulnerable communities to the impact of climate change that intensified the labor roles and responsibilities. However, Indigenous women are not just passive victims but active agents, displaying a plethora of skills, knowledge, and rich environmental practices that help in climate change adaptation and mitigation. Indigenous women have deep and intricate relationships with their environment and surrounding landscape. Indigenous women’s roles and contribution in nurturing their families and their rich environmental awareness of the resources make them champions in safeguarding their environment. Indigenous women’s historical dependence on their environment to meet their physical, emotional, and social needs has developed deep ecological knowledge and values of environmental ethics. Despite their strong agency in the community and rich place-based knowledge, often Indigenous women are missing in decision-making and governance in the climate change discourse at community, national and global levels.

Speakers

Speakers:

Ms. Grace Balawag, Tebtebba, Climate Change and Indigenous Women

A representative from FIMI

One representative from Bangladesh, TBC

Dr. Pasang Yangjee Sherpa, UBC, Climate Change and Indigenous Resilience

Ms. Preity Gurung, CIPRED

Moderator:

Ms. Bidhya Hirachan, CIPRED

Languages

English