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Global Climate Change Solutions

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How the climate crisis affects indigenous communities...

Global climate change, or global warming, has been rated the second-most impactful risks facing humanity back in 2017 by the World Economic Forum. It has been widely documented that the affects of global climate change will not be distributed equally around the world. Many of the countries least responsible for the release of greenhouse gases are more likely to experience its impacts. Indigenous people are among the first to experience the direct impact of global climate change. Global climate change continues to pose a threat to indigenous communities world wide, who may be considered the most vulnerable.

1. Indigenous People and Climate Change: ILO
2. The Affects of Climate Change on Indigenous Peoples - United Nations (UN.)
3. Climate Change and the Health of Indigenous Populations - EPA
4. The Impact of Climate Change on Minorities and Indigenous Peoples - Minority Rights Group International

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How Indigenous Peoples Are Taking the Lead in the Climate Crisis:

Indigenous communities around the world have already begun preparing for the impact of our warming planet, here’s how.

1. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
2. Indigenous Knowledge on Climate Change - Food for Thought (Grist)
3. How Native Tribes Are Taking the Lead on Planning for Climate Change - YaleEnviroment360

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Organizations to Support and How to Help:

1. Indigenous Climate Action - ICA
2. Indigenous Environmental Network - IEN
3. NorthEast Indigenous Climate Resilience Network
4. International Indigenous People’s Forum on Climate Change

The fight to save the Arctic is heating up. The region is more impacted by global warming than any other place in the world.”
- Greenpeace USA

“The Arctic's shallow and biologically productive seas are also rich with oil reserves. But oil exploration poses a tremendous risk to vulnerable Arctic ecosystems and communities. Oil and gas development could also damage fisheries, tourism and other, more sustainable economic activities. The production of Arctic oil and gas contributes even more to the climate crisis through increased greenhouse gas emissions.
Offshore oil exploration, drilling and production can threaten the fish and marine mammals that Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic rely on.”
- WWF

“The Arctic has four of the world’s 10 major fisheries, including salmon and pollock, along with a substantial amount of community-based and subsistence fishing. Access to fishing is a significant opportunity for Arctic peoples but climate change and the world’s growing appetite for fish creates new stresses on the ocean.”
- WWF

“The consequences of climate change are unfolding far more rapidly and intensely in the Arctic than anywhere else in the world. Soaring temperatures, rapidly melting ice and snow, rising sea levels and acidifying oceans are threatening all Arctic wildlife, from great whales to tiny plankton — not just the iconic polar bear.”
- Center for Biological Diversity

“Climate change is the greatest long-term threat to the region. Some parts of Antarctica are experiencing significant ice retreat, including the collapse of ice shelves along the Antarctic Peninsula, while other areas are increasing. If our climate continues to warm and acidify the Southern ocean, scientists predict that krill populations could be devastated, undermining the entire food chain.” - WWF

“This issue can impact the food chain in the Antarctic Ocean because over-harvesting of the krill can negatively impact the species that eat them such as penguin, whales, and seals. It can impact the ecological system of the food chain in the southern ocean and maybe even the entire ocean as whales, seals, and penguins make up parts of it (ASOC).”
- ARCGIS

“Plastic and traces of hazardous chemicals have been found in Antarctica, one of the world’s last great wildernesses, according to a new study.”