Expertise:Environmental activist, geographer, Indigenous climate knowledge advocacy, Climate change and adaptation
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim is an expert in the adaptation and mitigation of indigenous peoples to climate change. She is a member of the Mbororo pastoralist people in Chad and President of the Association for Indigenous Women and Peoples of Chad (AFPAT). She is the Coordinator of the Association of Peul Women and Autochthonous Peoples of Chad and served as the co-director of the pavilion of the World Indigenous Peoples’ Initiative and Pavilion at COP21, COP22 and COP23. Oumarou Ibrahim is an advocate for the greater inclusion of indigenous people and their knowledge and traditions in the global movement to fight the effects of climate change. Oumarou Ibrahim received the Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award and was appointed as a United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Advocate. She serves as a Member of the United Nations Permanent Forum for Indigenous Issues; Member of the Indigenous Peoples of Africa Coordinating Committee (IPACC); Member of the Advisory Committee to the Secretary-General’s 2019 Climate Action Summit; and Conservation International Senior Indigenous Fellow. In 2019, she was listed by Time Magazine as one of 15 women championing action on climate change.
She is an expert on indigenous rights, climate change adaptation and mitigation techniques, and is a co-chair of the International Indigenous Peoples’ Forum on Climate Change, which represents indigenous groups worldwide in U.N. climate negotiations.
Indigenous knowledge meets science to take on climate change | Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3d_UsYgt1c
Indigenous peoples on the front line of the climate crisis
https://www.ioes.ucla.edu/news/indigenous-peoples-on-the-front-line-of-the-climate-crisis/
Africa Resilience Forum: Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim on building resilience by tackling climate change
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH8vPQTSz4E
