Photographer Rafiq Maqbool captured striking images of a dozen Indigenous participants from around the world at the annual U.N. climate conference and asked them about the urgency they feel toward climate change. He posed two questions to each of them: How was their community being impacted by climate change, and how was their community working to fight climate change? Maqbool worked closely on the edit with Climate Photo Editor Alyssa Goodman, who also built the presentation, and with Climate News Director Peter Prengaman in selecting the best quotes. The result was a package that captured, in images and words, some of the diversity of Indigenous peoples and how extreme weather fueled by climate change is hitting their communities hard. While the conference was covered by many major news organizations, no other outlet did a similar story.
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