Dec 12, 2022
In 2021 the Saami Council effectively stopped Harvard
University's Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment
(SCoPEx), which aimed to examine the behavior of stratospheric
aerosols which could potentially be used to reflect back a portion
of incoming sunlight to reduce global warming. In
a C2GTalk, Åsa Larsson Blind, vice-president of the
Saami Council, explains why she was in opposition, and underlines
the importance of including indigenous people in climate
governance.
Åsa Larsson Blind has been a member of the Saami Council since 2008
and was elected president in the period 2017-2019. She was the
first woman elected chair of the National Sámi Association in
Sweden 2019-2021, where she also was a board member in 2007-2011.
Larsson Blind has been a member of the board of the Indigenous
Peoples Secretariat under the Arctic Council and has many years of
experience working in Sámi organizations, She lives in Övre Soppero
in the Swedish part of Sápmi, is part of a reindeer herding family
and holds an MSc in human resources management and development.
For more, please go to C2G's website.