Climate solutions seen harming indigenous peoples

April 9, 2008

By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO (Reuters) - Large-scale solutions to help slow global warming often threaten the very indigenous peoples who are among those hardest hit by a changing climate, the U.N. University said on...

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Climate solutions often harm indigenous peoples-UN
Large-scale solutions to help slow global warming often threaten the very indigenous peoples who are among those hardest hit by a changing climate, the U.N. University said on Wednesday.

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