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Sunday, October 25, 2009 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
Room: San Luis

Speaker(s)
Andrea Carmen Executive Director, International Indian Treaty Council Presenter View
Warren Evans Sector Director, Environment Department, The World Bank Presenter View
Jonny BearCub Stiffarm Business Development Director, NativeEnergy Moderator View

Description
Considering investing in carbon credits? This session will feature a conversation between an Indigenous climate change activist and a representative of The World Bank exploring the tensions between the Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) initiative embraced by the UN and The World Bank, and Indigenous peoples whose land is often appropriated by governments for REDD projects without their informed consent.

Speaker Biographies

Andrea Carmen, Yaqui Indian Nation, has been a staff member of the International Indian Treaty Council (IITC) since 1983 and the Executive Director since 1992. She has many years of experience working with Indigenous communities from North, Central, South America and the Pacific.  Ms. Carmen has worked extensively with United Nations bodies addressing human rights and Indigenous Peoples, and was IITC's team leader for work on the UN Declaration for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Most recently, Ms. Carmen was on the Steering Committee of the Indigenous Peoples Global Summit on Climate Change which brought together 300 Indigenous leaders in Anchorage, Alaska earlier this year.

                    

Warren Evans oversees the implementation of the Bank's Environment Strategy, in particular, for integrating environmental objectives in lending and non-lending operations, and providing leadership to the global environment agenda with internal and external stakeholders, including the expansion and strengthening of global environmental partnerships.  He is a key spokesperson for the Bank on climate change and related programs.  Prior to joining The World Bank in 2003, Mr. Evans held technical and managerial positions at the Asian Development Bank, most recently as the Director for the Environment and Social Safeguards Division based in the Philippines.  Previously, he worked on environmental issues in developing countries.

                    

Jonny BearCub Stiffarm, an enrolled member of the Fort Peck Assiniboine & Sioux Nation, is a Business Development Director for NativeEnergy.  NativeEnergy is a climate solutions pioneer and recognized leader in the US carbon market. Trained as an attorney, Ms. BearCub Stiffarm is a former President of the Native American Bar Association, and was a judge for the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. She was the main narrator in a documentary film exploring issues of Native American religious freedom and spirituality.  Her activism includes participation in the 1969-70 Indians of All Tribes (advocacy group) non-violent protest to take over Alcatraz.