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1. Hindou Ibrahim (Chad): Living in Harmony With Nature – UN Climate Thought Leader Hindou Ibrahim (6:19)
- Hindou Ibrahim comes from a Mbororo pastoralist community in Chad, West Africa.
- For centuries, Indigenous communities have protected our environment.
- They care for more than 20% of our planet’s land and 80% of its biodiversity.
- Living in harmony with nature means respecting each species of nature.
- You do not extract from nature; you take only what you need, and you give back what you take.
- We are only one species of nature, so we cannot harm the rest of them.
- For Indigenous communities, looking after nature is not a passion or a job; it is their way of living, and it is what they have done for generations.
- Their way of life – rich with traditional knowledge and respect for nature – and their ability to manage natural resources sustainably supports the lives and livelihoods of 2.5 billion people or about one in three people in the world.
- To fight climate change, Indigenous people are the solution.
- Indigenous communities have historically been at the margins of formal global negotiations on climate change.
- They were finally given a voice alongside governments in 2015 when the UNFCCC created the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform.
- At the 2021 Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, governments pledged $12 billion to stop and reverse forest loss and land degradation by 2030.
- $1.7 billion was earmarked to support the efforts of Indigenous communities to conserve tropical forests.
- Nearly 480 million Indigenous peoples living in at least 90 countries need support to protect a diversity of ecosystems, from the glaciers in the Arctic to the steppes in Central Asia and the savannahs in Africa, that are threatened by climate change.
- In recent years, the world’s leading scientists have recognised Indigenous communities as “some of the best stewards,” stressing their central role in safeguarding life on our planet.
- Their traditional knowledge – which is closely linked to their lands, territories and resources – can help end food insecurity, combat climate change and reverse land degradation and biodiversity loss.
- We must all act to fight climate change and protect the world from the war that is coming from every corner of the world: it could be water, biodiversity or human insecurity, but all are related to climate change, so we cannot be sustainable if we do not act.
