From the global Blue Community World Council of Churches (WCC):
“To care for the Earth is to love the Creator”: Indigenous leader at COP30
Indigenous peoples safeguard 80 percent of Earth’s remaining biodiversity. Yet their voices are often excluded from climate negotiations. Their territories face extractivism and violence.
Jocabed R. Solano Miselis is an Indigenous leader from the Guandule Nation in Panama and a member of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Ecumenical Indigenous Peoples Reference Group. She is also a member of the WCC’s Commission on Climate Justice and Sustainable Development.
At COP30 in Belém, Brazil, Solano Miselis shared what territory means for Indigenous peoples, how Indigenous women resist, and why the church must stand with those protecting biodiversity.
