As the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) climate talks opened in Panama this week, Indigenous leaders from around the world gathered in Finland and called upon the international community to remove scientific bias against Indigenous knowledge from climate change science and policy. The “Sevettijärvi Declaration”, adopted at the meeting hosted by the Skolt Sámi Nation and Snowchange Cooperative, calls on the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to include Indigenous knowledge and local perspectives in its assessment processes. Read more.
