Vanessa Andreotti

Co-author of this article, Chief Ninawa, hereditary Chief of the Huni Kui Indigenous people of the Amazon, holds a sign that says: ‘Amazon is life, petroleum and gas is death’ outside a hotel in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

November 9, 2022

Views from COP27: How the climate conference could confront colonialism by centring Indigenous rights

Chief Ninawa Huni Kui, University of British Columbia and Vanessa Andreotti, University of Victoria

A different future will not be possible without reverence, respect, reciprocity and responsibility towards the Earth. On this issue, Indigenous Peoples have a lot to share.

Indigenous Peoples protest the Brazilian government’s efforts to exterminate their rights and legalize destruction of the Amazon forest at the ‘Luta Pela Vida’ (struggle for life) protest, in August 2021, in Brasilia, Brazil. (Vanessa Andreotti)

November 1, 2021

From the Amazon, Indigenous Peoples offer new compass to navigate climate change

Dallas Hunt, University of British Columbia; Cash Ahenakew, University of British Columbia; Sharon Stein, University of British Columbia; Vanessa Andreotti, University of British Columbia, and Will Valley, University of British Columbia

The climate emergency can’t be addressed with simplistic solutions. A network of Indigenous communities in Brazil invites us to reorient colonial approaches and embrace deeper change.

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