The Commonwealth has launched a regenerative climate change model that marries the ancient wisdom of indigenous groups with emerging innovations, technologies and scientific approaches.
Common Earth,\u00a0is the programme that will create a network of projects that could be replicated and adapted to any community, country or region.
Government officials, environmentalists, scientists, economists, and representatives from indigenous groups from around the Commonwealth met at the organisation\u2019s headquarters in London to discuss how the initiative can achieve sustainable development whilst protecting the planet.
\u201cIt is not game over in the battle against climate change its game on,\u201d said Secretary-General Patricia Scotland. \u201cBecause this about looking at practical, existing strategies to clean streams, restore forests and damaged ecosystems, protect marine health, educate our populations and challenge the economic and development approaches that led to the decline of our planet.
\u201cIt is about a development model that takes into account the ancient wisdom of the indigenous peoples that found a way to live in harmony with their environments, and integrates it into our scientific advances and solutions to climate change. And it is a model I will take to ministers in our upcoming trade and finance summits and heads of governments at their meeting next year.\u201d
Common Earth, she added, will be based on regenerative economic models. Economist Stuart Cowan explained how these types of economies will work.
\u201cWhen we talk about regenerative economies we are looking at cycles of growth transformation,\u201d he said.\u00a0 \u201cWe are looking for ways to bring ecological systems back into full health and blossoming, and figuring out how our economies can meet all our needs, while nature flourishes.
\u201cSo as we think about climate change the health of living systems is critically important. The way we use our land, grow our food and design our cities and transportation systems can reduce carbon emissions rapidly and efficiently.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
The Common Earth project will be hinged on the activities of five working groups: The Commonwealth has launched a regenerative climate change model that marries the ancient wisdom of indigenous groups with emerging innovations, technologies and scientific approaches. Common Earth,\u00a0is the programme that will create a network of projects that could be replicated and adapted to any community, country or region. Government officials, environmentalists, scientists, economists, and representatives from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":14233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5773,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
the ‘Commonwealth Small State, Climate Change Blue-Green Trade Working Group’;
the ‘Gender and Climate Change Working Group’;
the ‘Indigenous Affairs Working Group’;
the ‘Waters\u00a0Prosperity Working Group’; \u00a0
the ‘Regenerative Finance Working Group\u2019.<\/em>
Nichie Abo a member and former chairman of the Tribal Council for the\u00a0Kalinago Indians\u00a0in Dominica described the conference as important in providing solutions to climate change.\u00a0 He described the Kalinago Global Resilience projects which have created approaches to building infrastructure and farming that can help to protect, preserve and restore natural resources.
He said, \u201cThe Kalinago way is simple, it is not materialistic, not extractive, it has respect for the earth and the entire environment and we view ourselves as one element in the circle of life. What has brought us to this point is that we are not spiritually connected to the earth.\u00a0And this indigenous philosophy is what the world is now returning to because Western societies have recognised that and the science has proven he benefits of that the indigenous way of life.\u201d
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