Robin Bronen and Tiina Kurvits attended the 6th Conference on Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change last week in Hanoi, Vietnam and Robin gave a talk entitled "Climate-induced community relocation: community-based adaptation strategies to protect human rights". Robin is participating in an Many Strong Voices (MSV) project on human rights and relocation. Hers was the only talk at the conference from an Arctic perspective and the session chair noted that the conference should give more attention to the cryosphere in the future. There was considerable interest in the work that MSV is trying to do in linking peoples from different regions address climate change.
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You can read an interview that Robin's gave at the conference at Alaskan villagers become climate refugees as homeland melts<http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/alaskan-villagers-become-climate-refugees-as-homeland-melts/>
There is also an interview posted on youtube from the conference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXSLy2QngVY&feature=relmfu
