Indigenous groups 'on front line of climate change'

Indigenous people from around the world are gathering this week for a conference on climate change – a subject they claim affects them disproportionately even though they share relatively little responsibility for it.

Patricia Cochran, chairwoman of the Inuit Circumpolar Council, said the United Nations-affiliated conference in Anchorage, Alaska, intended to provide “a unified voice, to be able to have more influence over the political and other decisions that are being made that impact our communities”.