{"id":692,"date":"2024-10-14T12:54:13","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T17:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/justiciaclima-ppii.pucp.edu.pe\/?p=692"},"modified":"2025-04-04T10:18:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T15:18:29","slug":"visiones-indigenas-para-la-justicia-climatica-las-voces-y-saberes-de-las-comunidades-que-son-fundamentales-frente-al-cambio-climatico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justiciaclima-ppii.pucp.edu.pe\/en\/visiones-indigenas-para-la-justicia-climatica-las-voces-y-saberes-de-las-comunidades-que-son-fundamentales-frente-al-cambio-climatico\/","title":{"rendered":"Indigenous visions for climate justice: the voices and knowledge of communities that are essential in the face of climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"

Professor Maritza Paredes explains why\u00a0wildfires in the Peruvian Amazon highlight the urgency of climate justice<\/strong>, a central theme of the project\u00a0Indigenous Visions for Climate Justice,<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0in which she has been working for the past two years. The project\u00a0involves indigenous communities in the Amazon, the Andes, and Rapa Nui, who seek to integrate into global climate action<\/strong>\u00a0contributing their ancestral knowledge. Recently, a national workshop was held with indigenous women, state representatives, and NGOs to discuss social justice and community participation.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0doctor\u00a0Maritza Paredes<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0has been researching the link between natural resources and indigenous communities for years. She graduated in Social Sciences from PUCP, earned her master\u2019s degree at Columbia University, and completed her doctorate at the University of Oxford, dedicating her career to understanding how territory and nature influence Peruvian politics.\u00a0Her most recent work focuses on climate justice. A struggle that not only seeks to mitigate the effects of climate change but also to amplify the voices of those who have historically been silenced: indigenous communities.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In August, a national workshop was held as part of the project\u00a0Indigenous Visions for Climate Justice<\/a><\/em>. This collective effort between Peru and Chile aims to integrate the perspectives of indigenous peoples into national and international climate policies.\u00a0The communities of the Andes, the Peruvian Amazon, and Rapa Nui not only face the consequences of climate change.\u00a0<\/strong>At the same time,\u00a0they possess the knowledge to adapt to and mitigate its effects.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Amazon on fire: A warning of a global environmental crisis<\/h2>\n

Maritza Paredes, one of the leading voices on environmental issues, offers us a clear perspective on\u00a0how global warming and various human practices<\/strong>\u00a0are responsible\u00a0for wildfires, which affect fragile ecosystems and have an impact on indigenous communities.<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"Wildfires are signs of a deeper problem. Just as a high fever is an indicator of a larger issue in the human body, the fires in the Amazon reflect a structural crisis that is affecting both the environment and the communities that depend on it,\" she tells us.<\/p>\n

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\u00abLo que antes se asociaba solo a la quema y roza para la agricultura ha evolucionado hacia una industrializaci\u00f3n de la destrucci\u00f3n del bosque. (\u2026) El conocimiento de las comunidades sobre c\u00f3mo gestionar los recursos naturales es clave para enfrentar los incendios y construir una resiliencia real ante el cambio clim\u00e1tico\u00bb.<\/h3>\n