

5 questions with Rituraj Phukan, Founder at the Indigenous People's Climate Justice Forum – The Sustainable Matchmaker
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In our "5 questions with…" series, discover the people stepping up to take action during this climate crisis. Their professional background, climate story, successes and challenges, doubts and hopes and special anecdotes.
An intimate conversation with the people behind The Circular Society Network, a community of leaders and experts in the most influential industries, all ready to collaborate in a more circular, cross-sector and inclusive way, all over the world.
In this episode, we meet Rituraj Phukan, Founder at the Indigenous People's Climate Justice Forum. Rituraj Phukan is an environmental writer, adventurer & naturalist based out of Assam, a biodiversity-rich, climate change impacted province in the northeast of India. He is the Founder of the Indigenous People's Climate Justice Forum and also serves as the Vice-President of the US-based Grassroots Coalition for Environmental and Economic Justice. He is a member of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and sits on the board of civil society groups in the Americas, Europe and Australia.
Rituraj has personally experienced the impacts of climate change in the polar frontiers of the Arctic and Antarctic, in the Himalayas and across India. Having worked extensively at the grassroots, he says “Water is the local issue of global climate change, for people, and for biodiversity.” Rituraj was personally trained as a Climate Reality Leader by Nobel Laureate Al Gore and was featured in the former US Vice-President’s 2017 book ‘An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power’. He authored the chapter “Biodiversity in a warming world” in the Amazon No.1 Bestseller ‘Climate Abandoned,’ a book launched in the USA on Earth Day 2019. He was an accredited Observer at the UN Climate Conference (COP26) in Glasgow in November 2021," and has recently been selected as a European Climate Pact Ambassador. Feel free to give any feedback, much appreciated and share and subscribe if you enjoyed it!
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