The representative of the indigenous community anchored in the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta, is Dwirunney Torres Torreswho not only is present, but as an active part of the negotiations that will define global climate policies.

A delegation from the Arhuaco peoplewith the support of the Tayrona Indigenous Confederation, will present to the international community the Heart of the World Programme as a strategy of action Climate for the planet.

This delegation includes, also has the presence of mamo arhuaco that will have a direct international impact on the world's most important climate summit. "The presence of this spiritual authority represents much more than a symbol: it is the recognition that ancestral knowledge and spiritual authority must be present in the spaces where the future of Mother Earth is decided," the Arhuaco people said.

Dwirunney Torres Torres will participate in the negotiating tables where the climate commitments of the countries are defined, bearing the perspective and proposals of the Arhuaco people and the indigenous movement to the decisions of the international climate policy.

At the same time, they will show the international community a concrete strategy of climate action based on the Law of Origin and the ancestral knowledge of the four villages in the Sierra Nevada de Gonawindua. These two spaces represent the same mandate, "which the world recognizes that without the original peoples, their territories and their knowledge, there are no durable solutions to climate change."

In addition, they stressed that during COP30 they will present the Heart of the World Programa strategy built jointly by the four villages of the Sierra Nevada of Gonawindua —Arhuaco, Kogi, Wiwa and Kankuamo— based on the Law of Origin that these brotherly peoples have shared since ancient times, and that this proposal may be replicable climate action for the world.

This ancestral community said that the arrival in Belém do Pará, Brazil, was through the collective effort of the seven indigenous organizations represented at the Standing Committee on Coordination, which make proposals to ensure a real, incident and binding participation of the Indigenous Movement in climate decision-making.

In this regard, they stressed that the Heart of the World Program requires financing so that both the technical and spiritual components of territorial protection are recognized, and that these strategies designed since the Law of Origin can be monitored by the communities themselves, under their traditional authority systems and according to their ceremonial calendars and natural cycles.

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