Pittsburgh, PA, September 20, 2009–Jihan Gearon from the Indigenous Environmental Network and Co-Coordinator of the Mobilization for Climate Justice speaks on false solutions to climate change and the impacts on Indigenous Peoples. Global Justice Ecology Project‘s Anne Petermann and Anna Pinto from CORE (Center for Organizing, Research and Education) in India also presented on the climate justice panel in the lead up to the opening of the International Coal Conference and meeting of the leaders of the G-20 to be held this week in Pittsburgh, PA.
The event is part of Global Justice Ecology Project’s New Voices on Climate Change fall tour. The New Voices tour is co-sponsored by Global Exchange, Speak Out and the Mobilization for Climate Justice with support in Pittsburgh from the