Expert Briefing on Forests Hosted by Columbia University's Earth Institute Around 5th Anniversary of Paris Climate Agreement

Editor's note: The event, to be held on the eve of the Paris Agreement’s five-year anniversary, takes place during a week-long initiative to raise awareness of land rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities. For more information on this initiative, Land Rights Now, please visit: https://www.landrightsnow.org/

Press Briefing on High-level Findings on Urgent Need to Defend Ecosystems, and Land Rights for Indigenous, Local Forest Peoples as Key Solution

LINK TO JOIN: https://www.earth.columbia.edu/videos/view/how-rights-for-forest-guardians-can-break-the-pandemic-circuit-save-species-and-slow-co2-rise

Press Briefing Background Materials, Organized by Speaker  

Peter Daszak, President of EcoHealth Alliance:

Pamela McElwee, Associate Professor in the Department of Human Ecology in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences at Rutgers University 

Jeffrey Sachs, University Professor at Columbia University and Director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network:

Peter Veit, Director of the Land and Resource Rights (LRR) initiative at the World Resources Institute:

Norman Jiwan, NGO activist at SawitWatch 

Mina Susana Setra, Deputy to Secretary General of AMAN, the Indigenous Peoples Alliance of the Archipelago of Indonesia

Additional Background

Experts

Please contact Wanda Bautista ([email protected]) for a list of experts or to arrange interviews.