Twenty years inside UN negotiating rooms taught me five lies that keep Indigenous advocacy stuck in place. This episode names all five, explains why they're lies, and lays out the one move that could rewire Indigenous rights at the highest level of international law in our lifetime.

What's covered:

• The difference between access and influence at the UN.
• Why delivering the same intervention every year isn't building power.
• The four questions I use to actually affect outcomes inside negotiating rooms.
• What the Pacific Island states pulled off with the ICJ climate advisory opinion, and how Indigenous Peoples can do the same.
• Why a new convention on Indigenous rights is the wrong move right now.
• What an ICJ advisory opinion on Indigenous rights would actually do.
• The case for acting before the UNDRIP 20th anniversary in 2027.

My panel remarks at the 23rd UNPFII where I talk about carbon markets being sold as climate justice, that nature based solutions are not neutral, and Indigenous Peoples are doing damage control in a system that never expected us to still be here. Enjoy!

On today's episode, a panel presentation during the 5th UN Forum on Rule of Law on what is broken in climate governance. I shared two moments that reveal everything. And five things the international community can change. Enjoy!