Climate Change: Pasang Dolma Sherpa

“Living our lives with moral values and responsibilities is the only way to creating the desired equitable and healthy society that ensures our collective rights, mutual respect and dignity for us to live in harmony with nature, in the absence of which we merely become like a robot.”

Pasang Dolma Sherpa, Executive Director of Center for Indigenous Peoples' Research & Development (CIPRED) has been working with Indigenous Peoples, Women and Local Communities for the promotion and recognition of the traditional knowledge, cultural values and customary institutions that contributed for natural resource management, climate change resilience and sustainable development for more than a decade. Ms. Sherpa has served as Co-Chair of International Indigenous Peoples’ Forum on Climate Change (IIPFCC) and Co-Chair of FWG, LCIP of UNFCCC.