Indigenous spiritual values guide climate change adaptation in mountain communities | International Institute for Environment and Development

Indigenous spiritual values guide climate change adaptation in mountain communities | International Institute for Environment and Development

Cultural
and spiritual values of indigenous peoples and climate change will be
the focus of an international event in the Potato Park, Cusco, Peru from
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"The spiritual traditions of indigenous mountain peoples' have enabled
them to survive in some of the harshest environments and adapt to
climatic changes over the centuries," says IIED's Krystyna Swiderska. 

Mountains
such as the Andes, in Peru, are among the regions most affected by
climate change (Photo: David Stanley via Creative Commons
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)