Lola Cabnal is a Mayan Q’eqchí woman from a rural community in the municipality of Livingston, Guatemala. She is the Chair of the Council of Indigenous Women and Biodiversity, and a climate advocacy strategist for Ak’ Tenamit Association.
Lola is also among the Indigenous peoples’ and civil society representatives to the UN-REDD Programme’s Executive Board, where she has given voice to the perspective of Indigenous women and communities, reinforcing UN-REDD’s inclusive, gender-responsive, rights-based approach. Indigenous peoples and other forest-dependent communities are disproportionately impacted by climate injustices and are often left out of the political decision-making process, even though they are rights and knowledge holders.
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