00:00Hi Brute, I'm Alice Patachó, I'm an indigenous leader and climate activist.
00:05I'm here at COP26 to be part of the discussions and bring the voice and indigenous representativeness to this space as well.
00:12Let's go?
00:16Please join me in welcoming Alice Patachó. Thank you.
00:23We indigenous peoples are guardians of the forest
00:27and we defend more than 80% of the world's biodiversity, according to the UN.
00:34I'm going to stay here, it's warmer inside.
00:39I and other indigenous people are in a delegation representing the Brazilian people.
00:45We are here to talk about our history and what has been happening politically in our country
00:51and to ask for international help for the environment in Brazil, to save the Amazon rainforest and our biomes.
00:57My people come from Bahia, from the far south. We are the first contact people with colonization.
01:03And we already feel a lot of the impacts of climate in our region.
01:07The advance of the sea level is clear and has destroyed our houses a lot, changed our traditional diet.
01:13And these are very serious risks when we live in a community that for many, many years, for centuries
01:19has a custom, a life tradition.
01:22The fires in our forests are increasingly present, the advance of illegal deforestation.
01:28And this is a very difficult concern for us, because our territory needs to be protected.
01:40Hello, I didn't have time to welcome you, I'm sorry.
01:44Be a leader.
01:47Bonjour.
01:49Hi, how are you?
01:52We are happy to see you.
01:55Nice to meet you.
01:57Nice to meet you too.
01:59I know a lot about your work. I'm very happy to meet you here.
02:03Nice to meet you. You look beautiful.
02:07You look so beautiful and strong. You are very strong.
02:11A real lesson for us.
02:14Sit down, sit down.
02:16Talking about...
02:18If the indigenous people of Brazil had more access to this issue of climate education
02:23at the beginning of their adolescence, at the beginning of their adult life, mainly.
02:28I speak for myself, because when I was younger, I didn't know what was happening out here.
02:33These days, someone told me, the forest owners, and I even posted this,
02:40look, we are not forest owners, we are its guardians.
02:43And this is the difference, because the forest never had an owner,
02:47no one ever held it, there is no fence around here.
03:01Hey guys, how are you? Good morning.
03:04How are you?
03:06Good morning.
03:09I think I'm going to record some stories here from the exhibition,
03:14and then we can go down there.
03:17We just left a meeting with the mayor of Paris,
03:21to receive, to propose issues about climate education in other places,
03:26to prepare us to really participate better in these international relations,
03:32and bring the indigenous people together in these constructions.
03:38I started working with the internet not long ago,
03:41and I started talking there about the things that worried me a lot about my people.
03:45It is very important our effective participation in this moment,
03:48because we are talking about a construction that does not exist without indigenous peoples.
03:53We need a lot of help and climate justice,
03:56so it is very important that people are aware of what is happening in Brazil,
04:00and that they can help in some way.
04:02That we leave here with all these concepts ready,
04:05but that we start executing them as soon as possible.
04:08We have little time to change the reality of the world,
04:11and it is very necessary that this starts today,
04:13and that we do not wait any longer,
04:15because we have already waited a long time, and the planet is on fire.
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