As part of the United Nations University's innovative and interactive Our World 2.0 web-based project, the United Nations University - Institute of Advanced Studies Traditional Knowledge Initiative (UNU-IAS TKI) and the UNU Media Studio present a video brief about the effects of climate change on remote indigenous countryside near Shipton’s Flat, Queensland, Australia.

The short presentation is told from the perspective of a Kuku Nyungkal Aboriginal woman in Northern Australia and highlights the impacts of increased global temperatures on the Nyungkal country, including driving animals to higher altitudes and transforming previously flowing streams into quiet pools of stagnant water.

The video brief complements the on-going work of the Indigenous Peoples Climate Change Assessment as part of UNU-IAS TKI's Traditional Knowledge and Climate Change programme. This is the second in a series of six web episodes highlighting indigenous perspectives on climate change.

Also see: Indigenous Perspectives on Climate Change: Australia 1, Indigenous Perspectives on Climate Change: Australia 3, Indigenous Peoples Perspectives on Climate Change: Papua New Guinea, Indigenous Perspectives on Climate Change: Borneo, Indigenous Perspectives on Climate Change: Russia

For further information about this project, please contact Ms. Ameyali Ramos Castillo at ramos[@]ias.unu.edu.