#FirstNatons #COP30

At COP30, we will continue to expose the links between Global North financial institutions and the destruction of Amazonian ecosystems, urging policymakers and investors to align with science. No new fossil fuel projects are compatible with containing global warming, which has already surpassed the 1.5°C limit ceiling that would prevent some of the worst threats of climate chaos

https://amazonwatch.org/news/2025/1030-cop30-at-the-crossroads-indigenous-sovereignty-or-climate-collapse

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #UpheavalClimate #environment #climate

#FirstNatons #Colombia

I was given a wooden baton – a symbol of power – to remind me to strive towards two goals: peace among our citizens after 50 years of conflict, and peace with nature. The indigenous leaders warned me that our relationship with the natural world had been harmed, that nature was angry, and that we would suffer the consequences. Two weeks later, La Niña hit Colombia with devastating floods

https://www.omanobserver.om/article/1178289/opinion/can-humanity-fix-what-it-has-broken

#ClimateChange #pollution #environment #climate

Attawapiskat FN is holding leadership elections on Aug 29. The community recently held a nomination meeting to select candidates for the elections.

#indigenous #firstnatons #Attawapiskat #onpoli #nishnawbe

https://wawataynews.ca/breaking-news/nomination-meeting-held-attawapiskat-chief-and-council

The discovery of a trove of long-forgotten, black-and-white photographs in an Italian library has proven that a group of #Indigenous #Australians formed a community in South East Asia 150 years ago. #Australia #firstnatons

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-11/mystery-community-of-aboriginal-and-indonesian-families/101901188

The 14,000-barrel spill of crude oil from the Keystone pipeline into a creek in Kansas last week has Carry The Kettle Cega'kin Nakoda First Nation (Cega'kin) “gravely concerned” about TC Energy Corporation’s operations on its nation 80 km east of Regina, Sask.

Cega'kin is the only First Nation in Canada with seven high pressure pipelines running through the community.

https://windspeaker.com/news/windspeaker-news/chief-pushes-tc-energy-more-attention-60-plus-year-old-lines-operating-carry

#FirstNatons #pipelines #oil&gas #TCEnergy #environment