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Climate Change Crisis and Environmental Justice in the Amazon: Voices from Indigenous Peoples and Activists

Friday, May 10
In Person Location: Kroon Hall, 195 Prospect St, New Haven, CT 

Via Zoom with English and Portuguese interpretation

8:45am-7:00pm

The Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies at the MacMillan Center at Yale University is honored to host the “Climate Change Crisis and Environmental Justice in the Amazon: Voices from Indigenous Peoples and Activists” conference at Kroon Hall Auditorium (195 Prospect St.) on Friday, May 10 at 8:45am. The event is in collaboration with the Yale Law School, Yale School of the Environment, Yale School of Public Health, the MacMillan Center’s Program on Peace and Development, and the Yale Center for Environmental Justice. The conference will feature a keynote by Marina Silva, the Brazilian Minister of the Environment, as well as other key indigenous rights leaders and scholars in this field. The panels will focus on the effects of climate change, the importance of indigenous rights, and the urgency for awareness regarding the ongoing political conflict within the Amazon.

This conference is in honor of the journalists, writers, and activists Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira who were killed in the Amazon in June 2022.

For some background information about the journalists, please see this article or listen to this Radio Ambulante episode.

The conference will end with a photo exhibit featuring photos from the Amazon and a reception with a performance by members of the Yale Brazilian Music Collective.