Host Organisation:

International Indian Treaty Council and Arctic Athabaskan Council 

Description:

This side event will be in the format of a panel presentation (a moderator and 5 presenters) and then open discussion to address the following: 1) Impacts of Climate Change on Indigenous fishing ecosystems and ways of life; 2) Indigenous Peoples' responses and solutions; 3) Relationship of Indigenous Peoples sustainable fishing and sustainable agriculture in the context of Just Transition; 4) impacts of imposed false solutions to climate change (i.e. "transition minerals mining" on Indigenous fisheries and water based food systems; and 5) strategies for including protections for Indigenous Peoples fisheries and fishing ways of life in the current agenda of the UNFCCC Sharm-el-Sheikh joint work programme of climate action on Agriculture and Food Security (decision 3/CP.27) 

Speakers:

Moderator and Introduction: 

Taily Terena,  Terena Indigenous Peoples,  Brazil, International Indian Treaty Council and International Indigenous Youth Forum on Climate Change 

Panelists: 

Chief Bill Erasmus: Dene Nation, Arctic Athabascan Council, Northwest Territory, Canada 

Sara-Elvira Kuhmunen, Saami, Vice Chair of World Reindeer Herders, Sweden 

Thomas Joseph, Hoopa Valley Tribe, Indigenous Environmental Network, California USA 

Andrea Carmen, Yaqui Nation, Executive Director, International Indian Treaty Council (IITC), Arizona USA and Sonora Mexico

Saul Vicente Vazquez, IITC Food Sovereignty Program Co-Coordinator, Zapoteca, Oaxaca Mexico

Languages:

English-Spanish-Portuguese