About GLF Climate 2021

Hosted digitally and in Glasgow alongside COP26, the GLF Climate 2021 hybrid conference made a unanimous call for ambitious, concrete action to stop the climate crisis.

Attended by 4,386 digital participants from 145 countries, along with 481 in-person participants at the University of Glasgow, the event featured 400 leading scientists, activists, Indigenous leaders, financiers, youth, and government leaders.

Across 67 plenaries, interactive sessions, launches, and climate talks, GLF Climate: Forests, Food, Finance – Frontiers of Change explored the potential of three key climate solutions: forest restoration, resilient food systems, and sustainable finance. Messages spread on social media rallied 41.34 million people around concrete ways to address the climate emergency as quickly as possible.

About this session

Indigenous women on the frontline of climate change impacts and solutions Responsibility and interconnectedness among all living beings are principles to understand how climate change affects Indigenous Peoples. The responsibility of Indigenous women to pass on their traditional knowledge to new generations is affected by climate change alterations that disrupt the life cycle. Indigenous women, mothers, sisters and elders in their roles as caretakers and life-givers are responsible for ensuring a healthy diet; providing traditional medicines and healing practices; sustaining household economies; and taking care of the lands, waters and sacred places.

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