In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look at how some global pop stars are responding to the climate crisis and what the Indigenous community hopes to get out of COP28.
From disappearing salmon stocks and caribou herds to wildfires and a changing landscape, Indigenous leaders are sharing their impressions at the UN climate summit of how a warming planet is impacting their communities and way of life.
Leaders from nearly every nation across the world—including Indigenous representatives from North America—will meet today in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, to begin a nine-day climate conference known as the Conference of Parties, or COP28. Representatives from almost 200 countries have gathered for the COP annually since 1994, where world leaders negotiate international environmental treaties aimed at reducing carbon emissions and limiting global temperature rise under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The first legally binding international treaty came in 2015 at the COP in Paris, France, when world countries adopted The Paris Agreement.
The Warrior Walkers are walking from Dawson City, Yukon to Whitehorse to honour the lost children and survivors of the residential and day school systems. The group left Dawson City on Sunday and plans to arrive in Whitehorse on Sept. 30, the national day of truth and reconciliation.
Rampart House once an early trading post in the Yukon’s northwest and important gathering place for the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation is now among a list of protected historic sites in the territory. Community members came together at the site last week to celebrate and remember.