Climate Resilience
The First Environmentalists: Bringing Indigenous Voices into Climate Resilience Planning
Indigenous lands contain eighty percent of the planet’s biodiversity, which is not just a coincidence.
November 2, 2022
Writer: Samantha Cristol (she/her)
Samantha Cristol is a second year law student at Georgetown University Law Center. She received her undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and spent three years working in the construction management industry in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is passionate about environmental justice and building a world where the natural and built environments coexist in healthy and meaningful ways.
Indigenous lands contain eighty percent of the planet’s biodiversity, which is not just a coincidence.
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