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September 22, 2014

Indigenous Medicine Peoples Statement to UN Climate Summit

Indigenous Elders at UN Climate Summit: ‘We Can No Longer Wait for Solutions From Governmental and Corporate Leaders’

Contact: Shawn Mulford                                                        
September 21, 2014           
Email: smulford@comcast.net
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NEW YORK – The UN Climate Summit hosted by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon serves to catalyze ambitious action on the ground to reduce emissions and strengthen climate resilience. The Summit also intends to mobilize political will for a global agreement to limit the world to a less than 2-degree Celsius rise in global temperature.
The anticipated absence of both Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi from the Climate Summit added validity to the Indigenous Elders and Medicine Peoples Council’s statement, “Today, we lack leadership. We have misplaced our trust in governmental leaders and the leaders of industry. They failed us by trying to maintain their profits, economies and their power over the people.”