Gwich’in Elder Sarah James on How Climate Change Is Altering Life in the Alaskan Arctic

Tuesday, December 8, 2009 :While 15,000 delegates, activists and journalists are gathered here at the Bella Center for the official climate conference, a people's summit called Klimaforum09 opened last night across town. Speakers at the Klimaforum include Sarah James, a longtime advocate for the Gwich'in people in Alaska. She traveled to Copenhagen with the Indian-born photographer Subhankar Banerjee, who has spent years documenting life in the Arctic.