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Dear Relatives,
As we compile the news for this edition of the IEN Newswire, we’re making final preparations for the many different cultural and secular holidays and observances for 2025. It’s a bittersweet time of year for most of us. We’re wrapping-up tasks and preparing for the new year that seems less familiar and festive. The chaos and turmoil that began just 11 months ago has affected us all in many ways.. Maybe mercifully, these months have seemed to have flown by.
On the other hand, there has been little time to respond to the wholesale destruction of our environment for corporate profit and control. There are no good reasons for the breakneck speed in which this administration has eliminated longstanding protections of basic life-sustaining earth systems. At the same time we are witness to the abject cruelty and attempts to stifle meaningful opposition to the worst of this administration's draconian acts against its citizens and the law-abiding people who have lawfully immigrated here.
 IEN staff, community organizers, allies, and partners have stepped up to the challenges. Throughout the year we conducted and contributed to producing educational outreach materials, that included webinars, blogs, and engaging on the world stage with Indigenous Peoples from across Mother Earth.
The most recent was COP30 that wrapped up a bit early on the 21st of November in Belem, Brazil. During the almost three weeks of events, presentations, speeches, and reports we shared as much content from these proceedings as possible. Most of what was happening is laid out here and we will be adding more analysis, perspectives, and insight in the coming months- so please keep visiting and we will do our best to notify our followers and supporters when we add more to the COP30 pages. We’re still going through the overwhelming number and variety of content that was and is still being produced, debated, and will carry forward to the next COP - because after 30+ years, we’re still nowhere near where we need to be in addressing the challenges of Climate Chaos.
Our next installment of the IEN Newswire is being written as we’re putting together this edition and preparing for our end of year recap. Staff is working on their stories of their travels and work during 2025. And there were many positive and hopeful moments - comradery, collective and hopeful because above all else we continue to respect and cherish the people we share this work with. So the December Newswire will take a look back and a glimpse of what our vision and goals for 2026 will look like.
For now, we send our sincere gratitude to everyone who supports our work by attending community events, webinars, reading and sharing our publications and social media content. May your celebrations and observances be filled with love and blessings.
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Status of Tribes and Climate Change (STACC) Report webinar series. This webinar will focus on the Good Fire chapter and will take place this Thursday, December 4th.
We are extremely grateful to welcome the below three speakers to the webinar:
- Dr. Melinda M. Adams, N’dee, San Carlos Apache; Assistant Professor – Department of Geography and Atmospheric Science, University of Kansas
- Bazile Minogiizhigaabo Panek, Ojibwe; Indigenous Consultant and Founder, Good Sky Guidance
- Althea Walker, Nez Perce, Hopi, Gila River; Director of Community Resilience, Climate Science Alliance
Please find more information on the flier below (also attached) and click on this link to register. We also welcome you to share this with others who may be interested.
We hope that you can join us!
Tribal Wellbeing for Seven Generations Team
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Global: Fossil fuel infrastructure is putting rights of 2 billion people and critical ecosystems at risk - Fossil fuel infrastructure poses risks for the health and livelihoods of at least 2 billion people globally, roughly a quarter of the world’s population, Amnesty International and Better Planet Laboratory said in a new report on the fossil fuel industry’s harms to climate, people and ecosystems across the world. Click here to read more.
How thousands of fossil fuel lobbyists got access to UN climate talks – and then kept drilling - Lobbyists representing the interests of the oil, gas and coal industries – which are mostly responsible for climate breakdown – have been allowed to participate in the annual climate negotiations where states are meant to come in good faith and commit to ambitious policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Click here to read more.
Fossil fuel companies attending U.N. climate talks in last four years responsible for nearly 60% of global oil and gas production in 2024 - For over three decades, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has failed to deliver the climate action needed to justly address the climate crisis, let alone keep global temperature rise to well below 1.5 degrees Celsius as promised in the Paris Agreement ten years ago. As a result, the world is consistently breaching temperature thresholds year after year, climate emergencies are happening at alarming rates and extremes, and carbon emissions are at all-time highs amidst fossil fuel use that continues to spiral out of control. Click here to read more.
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