As we at Solas Eige SCIO are getting on with all the paperwork dealing with the acquisition of the church by Solas Eige - a long and slow process, we took the opportunity to mount an exhibition on COP30 to respond to the plea of the Wampi nation representatives who visited Eigg last June. The visit of Pamuk (president) Teofilo Kukush Pati and director of Justice, Tsanim Evaristo Wajai Asamat, was to raise awareness of illegal logging of balsa wood by Chinese campanies supplying the windfarm industry throughout the UK. The extremely strong but light wood is used to manufacture wind turbine blades. The Wampi represenatives came to Eigg to discuss how the island community conducting its resistance dutring the years leading to the 1997 community buy-out and seek inspiration. Their plight touched the island community and as we heard Pamuk and Tsanim were involved in the COP 30 discussion in Belem, in the heart to the Amazon, it felt right to use the church space to raise awareness of Indigenous Rights at the COP30. The exhibition is taking place during the duration of the event and Solas Eige has endeavoured to send out regular briefings on the talks progress to the community and its followers. The island children who made COP 30 the topic of their assembly last week, will be jogging to the church from the school to add their message to the points already made about the urgent need to protect the Amazon forest as well as the Ocean.
In particular. the island of Eigg supports the Belem Action Mechanism for a Global Just Transition to address the current fragmentation and inadequacies of Just transition efforts to take a decisive step towards a coordinated action linking climate action with social justice, equity and sustainable development for all.
For more information:
https://www.forestpeoples.org/cop-30-delegation-of-the-autonomous-territorial-government-of-the-wampis-nation-peru/
