Photos of various members of the Indigenous Peoples Caucus and the IIPFCC - Global Steering Committee throughout SBSTA 48 by Rafael Ponte/SERVINDI can be viewed at the following website address: https://www.flickr.com/photos/140678303@N03/albums/with/72157696079895244
IIPFCC Closing Statement will be made today, 10 March 2018
Frank Ettawageshik of the National Congress of American Indians will give the closing statement of the International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change at the UNFCCC Climate Talks Plenary Session. The session begins at 3 PM Bonn time. He will speak about 2 hours after the start. Bonn, Germany is six hours ahead of EDT in the US. The webcast link can be found here:
https://unfccc-sb48.cloud.streamworld.de/webcast/sbsta-closing-plenary-2
LCIPP Workshop Photos from IISB/ENB
IISD/ENB shared the website where you'll find the group photo at the end of the dialogue and some others during the LCIPP workshop. Scroll down page to May 1, 2018 at http://enb.iisd.org/climate/sb48/
Frank Ettawageshik, National Congress of American Indians, opens the session with a prayer
Multi-stakeholder workshop on LCIPP held on 1 May 2018
As a follow-up to the Paris Agreement, an open, multi-stakeholder workshop on implementing the functions of the local communities and indigenous peoples platform took place on 1 May 2018. The workshop was the historic, first activity of the platform. Paul Watkinson, Chair of the SBSTA and Roberto Mukaro Borrero (Taíno), representative of local communities and indigenous peoples organizations were the session's co-moderators. Christiana Figueres Olsen, Executive Secretary of the UFCCC gave a key note address as well as Grace Balawag of Tebtebba Foundation. A report on the session will be issued by the co-moderators before COP24.
Grace Balawag (at left), Roberto Múkaro Borrero, and Frank Ettawageshik at the Multi-stakeholder Workshop on 1 May 2018