12 November 2024
From the bush to Baku for COP 29
Yankunytjatjara Anangu woman Karina Lester has just travelled from the APY Lands to Baku, Azerbaijan for the world’s biggest climate change summit – COP 29.
Along with an Indigenous Australian delegation, Karina will share her communities’ concerns and ideas about tackling climate change.
As a second-generation nuclear test survivor, she will be advocating against nuclear projects as an alternative to fossil fuels.
Karina Lester is an Aboriginal language expert at the University of Adelaide’s Mobile Language Team. In her spare time, she advocates against nuclear projects on Aboriginal lands.
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