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Climate Policies that Harm Indigenous Peoples No Solution via Earth Blog
Large-scale solutions to climate change [search] such as biofuel plantations, hydropower and even forest protection are threatening indigenous peoples [ark]. Sadly, a new UN report finds that frequently these large-scale climate policies threaten indigenous peoples [search] least responsible for, and most at risk from, global heating. Even as traditional societies flee rising seas, their lands are being dispossessed and other conflicts arising from ill-conceived climate mitigation projects. Too often efforts to protect rainforests try to eliminate rather than incorporate continued traditional indigenous rainforest uses [search]. Climate policies that stress industrial responses, seek to maintain unsustainable developed world lifestyles, and cause further harm to the world's most... World Has What It Takes to Fight Climate Change via Earth Blog
Agreement has just been reached by UN International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) delegates, a grouping of climate science experts, regarding the best ways to mitigate climate change [more | news search]. Importantly, the main conclusion is that the world has what it takes to fight climate change and that such climate mitigation policies are affordable [more | more2]. This Working Group III Report "Mitigation of Climate Change" [official summary] is the third segment of a larger IPCC report. The first concluded global warming is almost certainly human caused and the second warned of the consequences already occurring and yet to come such as massive human death and disease, droughts, floods, and storms. The new climate mitigation [search] report proposes limiting concentrations of...