On Saturday, we filmed and reported live from a protest, blessing and press conference by indigenous activists on behalf of over 150 organizations in Paris during the COP21 U.N. climate summit. One group at Saturday’s action, the Sarayaku, brought a canoe over 6,000 miles from the Amazon to Paris Tuesday, carrying a message of climate justice.
Indigenous women presented a treaty to protect Mother Earth, and a flotilla launched to demand indigenous solutions to climate change. The protest came the same day negotiators announced they had reached a draft deal on voluntary cuts to carbon emissions at the climate summit.
Our coverage:
“We Do Not Want to Die in Silence”: Indigenous People Demand Rights as Draft Climate Deal Reached





