Red Road Delegation Leaves for Paris

Indigenous Environmental Network Delegation 

Travels to Paris 

for 

UN Climate Talks

Over 45 Frontline Leaders Will Participate 

Inside and Outside COP21

http://indigenousrising.org/indigenous-environmental-network-delegation-travels-to-paris-for-un-climate-talks/

MEDIA ADVISORY
November 24, 2015
Press Contacts:
Dallas Goldtooth, IEN Media-Comms Coordinator, ienpipeline@igc.org
Tom Goldtooth, IEN Executive Director, ien@igc.org

It is the intended goal of IEN to influence the climate negotiations for the explicit purposes of achieving four core demands from the COP21:

• Establish a mandatory and legally-binding agreement to cut carbon emissions at the source.
• Keep Fossil Fuels in the Ground by establishing moratoriums on future fossil fuel developments.
• Recognize, respect, and observe the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in the climate agreement text.
• Reject false solutions, which are market-based mechanisms to address climate change and support Just Transition economies.

As a means to accomplish this goal, IEN will be performing a series of cultural demonstrations and public events throughout Paris to raise awareness of critical issues affecting frontline communities. Some of which are as follows:

• Sunrise Ceremony, November 29th,
• Global Climate Action, November 29th, location TBD
• Rights of Nature Tribunal, December 4-5, Maison de Metallos
• Keep It In the Ground & Women’s Treaty Press Event, December 6th, Bassion De La Villette.
• Natives in Paris Concert Event, December 10th, “la Halle aux Oliviers” at la Bellevilloise
• Indigenous Water Ceremony, December 11th, location TBD

A critical component of the IEN delegation is the emphasis on Indigenous women and youth leadership. The Indigenous Environmental Network is one of the founding signatories of the Indigenous Women of the North and South – Defend Mother Earth Treaty Compact 2015. 

This historic document will be presented at a press event on December 6th, 2015. IEN will also be bringing 13 Lummi youth from the Puget Sound area of the United States to encourage in-depth participation by our future leaders and generations. 

Current list of key spokespeople and their respective focal issues:

Kandi Mossett	Fracking, Just Transition, Renewable Energy
Alberto Saldamando	Human Rights and Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Pennie Plant	California Fracking, Women’s Treaty
Tantoo Cardinal	Tar Sands, Women’s Treaty
Frank Waln	Youth Climate Justice, Keystone XL, Native Hip-hop artist
Casey Camp	Women’s Rights
Faith Gemmill	Alaska Offshore Oil, ANWR
Jihan Gearon	Just Transition, Coal
Princess Johnson	Alaska Offshore Oil
Eriel Deranger	Tar Sands, UNDRIP
Crystal Lameman	Tar Sands, Women’s Rights
Oren Lyons	Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Wahleah Johns	Coal, Just Transition
Xiuhtexcatl Martinez	Youth Climate Justice
Itzcuauhtli Martinez	Youth Climate Justice
Allison Warden	Arctic Issues
Clayton Thomas-Mueller	Tar Sands, Stop It At the Source
Tom Goldtooth	Climate Justice, Extractive Economy, Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

We are in a historic moment wherein world leaders will continue drafting a new global treaty agreement on climate change this year in Lima at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference on Parties (COP). The final agreement is then expected to be signed in 2015 at the COP 21 in Paris.

INDIGENOUS RISING | OUR MESSAGE for events at and surrounding the UNFCCC COP 20 in Lima, Peru Dec. 2014 from Indigenous Environmental Network on Vimeo.