Want climate solutions in Indigenous territories? Better get consent.

Want climate solutions in Indigenous territories? Better get consent.

Four years ago, Harvard University moved a long-planned solar geoengineering project from Arizona to Sápmi, the homelands of Sámi peoples across what is now Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia. The Sámi had no idea it was coming. “We did not know about the plans until we got alerted by the [Indigenous Environmental Network] and they were saying, ‘You should be aware of this,'” said Sámi council member Åsa Larsson Blind.  Blind said that it’s unl…