{"id":291958,"date":"2025-11-14T22:21:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T22:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/291958\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T22:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T22:21:11","slug":"klamath-river-youngsters-who-recently-paddled-the-un-dammed-waterway-head-to-brazil-for-cop-30-climate-change-conference-lost-coast-outpost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/291958\/","title":{"rendered":"Klamath River Youngsters Who Recently Paddled the Un-Dammed Waterway Head to Brazil for COP 30 Climate Change Conference | Lost Coast Outpost"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Ruby Williams and the Rios to River team arrive at COP30 in Brazil. | Photos via Rios to Rivers.<\/p>\n

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Press release from Rios to Rivers:<\/p>\n

Klamath River, CA\u00a0– This week, Ruby Williams, Keeya Wiki, and Kiahna Allen, participants from the Rios to Rivers Paddle Tribal Waters first descent of the Klamath River, head to Brazil to participate in COP30, the largest global United Nations event for discussions and negotiations on climate change. There, they will join scientists, world leaders, and activists to share\u00a0the Klamath River Accord<\/a>, a landmark declaration to protect free-flowing rivers and recognize dam removal as a powerful solution for climate resilience and environmental justice.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe way our communities came together to undam the Klamath River can be done elsewhere,\u201d said Ruby Williams, a Karuk person enrolled with Quartz Valley Indian Reservation. \u201cI look forward to sharing our story, and helping others advocate for their home rivers\u201d<\/p>\n

Signed in July after the completion of the First Descent of the Klamath River, the Klamath River Accord is a call to action for global leaders and commits its signatories to protect free-flowing rivers, oppose construction of new dams, support dam removal as a climate solution, support river restoration, and uphold Indigenous rights. Inspired by the successful movement to remove four dams from the Klamath River. It was co-written by the Rivers for Climate Coalition<\/a>, Native youth and staff from R\u00edos to Rivers, and river defenders and experts from around the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cHydropower is often touted as a source of clean energy, but in reality, dams cause considerable harm to rivers, ecosystems, and communities.\u201d Said Kiahna Allen, who is from the Confederated Tribes Of Warm Springs and San Carlos Apache Nation. \u201cPutting a dam on a river is an act of theft. It denies the entire ecosystem\u2014from the fish and wildlife to future generations\u2014the right to clean, flowing water.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dams and their reservoirs drown landscapes, warm rivers, block fish passage, and create considerable amounts of Carbon Dioxide and Methane, both significant drivers in climate change. Although emissions from dams and their reservoirs are not yet fully understood, researchers estimate that they represent the 4th largest human-caused source of methane emissions globally.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cUndamming the Klamath River was a decades-long intergenerational fight,\u201d Said Keeya Wiki, Yurok Tribal member \u201cMy greatest hope is that we can spare other communities from that fight.\u201d<\/p>\n


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Ruby Williams, a Karuk person enrolled with Quartz Valley Indian Reservation, joins Brook Thompson, Yurok Tribal member, at COP30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ruby Williams and the Rios to River team arrive at COP30 in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-291958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}