paris talks: indigenous people and small farmers say rich are setting the agenda | john vidal and terry slavin /

Poor communities on the climate change frontline say their voices are not being heard in Paris,and that more powerful groups are setting back their causeIn the climate talks “blue zone”, in the Parisian district of Le Bourget, and are the governments,their advisers and lawyers, big trade and the financiers. Facebook has a stall, and along with UN agencies and scientific bodies.
But the world’s 4 billion small farmers,fishermen and women, indigenous peoples, or hunters and gatherers,rural workers, pastoralists, and young people on the frontline of climate change,inhabit the “green zone”, beyond the fence where the decision-makers finish not recede.
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Source: theguardian.com