Estimados.
En las negociaciones de cambio climatico en mis conversas con algunos delegados de gobierno he escuchado senalar que no quieren profundizar el tema indigena para evitar conflictos y no detenerse en las negociaciones; entonces creen que al final seguro entrara el tem, sin embargo, esto preocupa a los delegados indigenas porque no estan comprendiendo que si hablan de bosques hablan de pueblos indigenas.
Para ello segun los reportes de los planes de redd que tienen los gobiernos de latinoamerica, senalan que sus proyectos nacionales arrancaran en territorios de los pueblos indigenas. Si gustan conocer esta informacion deberian revisar los R-PINs en la siguiente direccion http://www.forestcarbonpartnership.org/fcp/ Como saben planifican iniciar con proyectos subnacionales y los procesos de consulta y participacion son importantes.
Una tema interesante es que el gobierno de Guyana decidio implementar el principio del Consentimiento Libre Previo e Informado sin limite de tiempo en la implementacion de su iniciativa REDD, que significa esto? que seria un primer caso donde el gobierno se sienta con los pueblos indigenas para trabajar el tema. Creo que es bueno dar seguimiento a este tema, no vaya ser que solo quede en enunciado para la prensa.
Pero, luego de esta decision hay gobiernos que estan buscando conocer mas el princpio del FPIC e incorporar en sus planes.
Sin descuidar nuestros propios sistemas de gobierno a nivel local y el fortalecimiento de los planes deberiamos observar y aconsejar a los gobiernos de que manera se puede cumplir de mejor manera el principio del FPIC.
Finalmente, la falta de participacion plena y efectiva de los pueblos indigenas y la falta del reconocimiento de los derechos ya consagrados en el marco internacional llevaria a una oposicion desde los pueblos indigenas duenos de los territorios y bosques, por consiguiente la iniciativa REDD sera simplemente un fracaso ya anunciado.
Saludos
miércoles, 12 de agosto de 2009
Joint Position on Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities and Climate Change
Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM) ~ Conservation International ~ Environmental Defense Fund ~ The Nature Conservancy
Joint Position on Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities and Climate
Change
Indigenous peoples and local communities depend on ecosystems and in particular, native forest for their livelihoods, using plants, animals and their products for food, clothing, fuel, medicine, and shelter. The economy, social organization, identity, and cultural and spiritual values of these communities are closely linked to their biological diversity.
However, territories and lands of both Indigenous peoples and local communities are often located in forested landscapes experiencing rapid social and economic change due to a combination of factors. These include the expansion of commercial farming and ranching, commercial logging, infrastructure development, mineral exploitation, immigration of settlers from other areas and climate change.
Many of the landscapes where Indigenous peoples and local communities live are critical to global conservation and climate change efforts. Indigenous peoples and local communities are engaged in discussions on climate change to a limited
extent both internationally and nationally. However, there are still information gaps on what threat global warming represents to their communities. There is a need to explore how REDD+1 mechanisms will impact Indigenous peoples and local communities, how they will ensure equitable distribution of benefits, and respect their rights. Additionally, Indigenous peoples and local communities are at the forefront of the issue of adaptation yet have rarely been included into the
discussions at the national and international level regarding the development of adaptation strategies and funding mechanisms.
Indigenous peoples and local communities, in the struggle for recognition of their basic human rights have made significant strides through international instruments such as the adoption of ILO Convention 169 and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). These internationally recognized instruments allow them to consolidate their traditional ways of life, address their land and resources rights, organization, and autonomous sustainable development of
their lands and territories, all of which are compatible with the efforts of environmental organizations.
The consolidation of these rights and their traditional ways of life are compatible with the objectives environmental organizations.
As such, we recognize that we have a common interest to search for the best approaches for the conservation of biodiversity and ecosystems that provide for vital services for human well-being.
As established in the Bali Action Plan, we also recognize that the needs of Indigenous peoples and local communities should be addressed when action is taken to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries. Moreover, these actions should ensure the full and effective participation of Indigenous peoples and local communities in the design and implementation of climate change mitigation and adaptation processes, mechanisms and activities
<<1 We support a mechanism that encompasses reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) as well as restoration, environmentally appropriate afforestation and reforestation, and conservation of carbon stocks from
the start of the mechanism and creates a pathway for including agriculture and other land use once capacity and credible methodologies exist to do so (REDD+).>>
including mitigation and adaptation funds; the recognition and respect for the rights of Indigenous peoples and local communities; and the equitable sharing of benefits. Furthermore in relation to REDD+, the SBSTA meeting at COP 14, included in their decision under methodological guidance:“Recognizing the need to promote the full and effective participation of indigenous people and local communities,’’ taking into account national circumstances and noting relevant international agreements2. Therefore, we recommend that:
The UNFCCC and member states ensure the recognition of the “lands, territories and resources which IP have traditionally owned, occupied or otherwise used or acquired” 3 in the implementation of any program that affects directly or indirectly indigenous peoples and local communities;
The UNFCCC and member states ensure that future REDD+ initiatives include the full and effective participation of Indigenous peoples and local communities;
A REDD+ framework embraces recognized rights instruments and the principles recognized under UNDRIP internationally, namely security of land tenure, resource rights, and traditional knowledge uses (and customary laws). These initiatives should also clearly include multiple benefits of forests for climate, ecosystems, and indigenous peoples and local communities; and
Parties assure the broad participation of Indigenous peoples and local communities in the design and development of their national REDD+ readiness strategies.
Additional Goals
The UNFCCC and member states recognize, respect and implement the principle of Free Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) in all Climate Change mitigation and adaptation processes, mechanisms, and activities impacting Indigenous peoples, local communities and other rights holders;
The UNFCCC and member states recognize and incorporate traditional knowledge and
practice as a fundamental resource in the development of mitigation and adaptation climate change strategies;
The UNFCCC and member states foster and create formal structures and mechanisms at
national and international scales that provide for the full and effective participation of indigenous peoples and local communities in climate change mitigation and adaptation mechanisms;
The UNFCCC establish a fund to support Indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ full and effective participation in all climate processes, including adaptation, mitigation, monitoring and transfer of appropriate technologies in order to provide funding for the, capacity-building, education, knowledge sharing, and skills transfer needed for such participation; and
The UNFCCC and member states recognize and support Indigenous peoples’ and local
communities’ own sustainable development process.
2 Decision number FCCC/SBSTA/2008/L.23, Annex, 1(c) in COP 14, Poznan
3 Art. 26, 1 UNDRIP
Joint Position on Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities and Climate
Change
Indigenous peoples and local communities depend on ecosystems and in particular, native forest for their livelihoods, using plants, animals and their products for food, clothing, fuel, medicine, and shelter. The economy, social organization, identity, and cultural and spiritual values of these communities are closely linked to their biological diversity.
However, territories and lands of both Indigenous peoples and local communities are often located in forested landscapes experiencing rapid social and economic change due to a combination of factors. These include the expansion of commercial farming and ranching, commercial logging, infrastructure development, mineral exploitation, immigration of settlers from other areas and climate change.
Many of the landscapes where Indigenous peoples and local communities live are critical to global conservation and climate change efforts. Indigenous peoples and local communities are engaged in discussions on climate change to a limited
extent both internationally and nationally. However, there are still information gaps on what threat global warming represents to their communities. There is a need to explore how REDD+1 mechanisms will impact Indigenous peoples and local communities, how they will ensure equitable distribution of benefits, and respect their rights. Additionally, Indigenous peoples and local communities are at the forefront of the issue of adaptation yet have rarely been included into the
discussions at the national and international level regarding the development of adaptation strategies and funding mechanisms.
Indigenous peoples and local communities, in the struggle for recognition of their basic human rights have made significant strides through international instruments such as the adoption of ILO Convention 169 and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). These internationally recognized instruments allow them to consolidate their traditional ways of life, address their land and resources rights, organization, and autonomous sustainable development of
their lands and territories, all of which are compatible with the efforts of environmental organizations.
The consolidation of these rights and their traditional ways of life are compatible with the objectives environmental organizations.
As such, we recognize that we have a common interest to search for the best approaches for the conservation of biodiversity and ecosystems that provide for vital services for human well-being.
As established in the Bali Action Plan, we also recognize that the needs of Indigenous peoples and local communities should be addressed when action is taken to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries. Moreover, these actions should ensure the full and effective participation of Indigenous peoples and local communities in the design and implementation of climate change mitigation and adaptation processes, mechanisms and activities
<<1 We support a mechanism that encompasses reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) as well as restoration, environmentally appropriate afforestation and reforestation, and conservation of carbon stocks from
the start of the mechanism and creates a pathway for including agriculture and other land use once capacity and credible methodologies exist to do so (REDD+).>>
including mitigation and adaptation funds; the recognition and respect for the rights of Indigenous peoples and local communities; and the equitable sharing of benefits. Furthermore in relation to REDD+, the SBSTA meeting at COP 14, included in their decision under methodological guidance:“Recognizing the need to promote the full and effective participation of indigenous people and local communities,’’ taking into account national circumstances and noting relevant international agreements2. Therefore, we recommend that:
The UNFCCC and member states ensure the recognition of the “lands, territories and resources which IP have traditionally owned, occupied or otherwise used or acquired” 3 in the implementation of any program that affects directly or indirectly indigenous peoples and local communities;
The UNFCCC and member states ensure that future REDD+ initiatives include the full and effective participation of Indigenous peoples and local communities;
A REDD+ framework embraces recognized rights instruments and the principles recognized under UNDRIP internationally, namely security of land tenure, resource rights, and traditional knowledge uses (and customary laws). These initiatives should also clearly include multiple benefits of forests for climate, ecosystems, and indigenous peoples and local communities; and
Parties assure the broad participation of Indigenous peoples and local communities in the design and development of their national REDD+ readiness strategies.
Additional Goals
The UNFCCC and member states recognize, respect and implement the principle of Free Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) in all Climate Change mitigation and adaptation processes, mechanisms, and activities impacting Indigenous peoples, local communities and other rights holders;
The UNFCCC and member states recognize and incorporate traditional knowledge and
practice as a fundamental resource in the development of mitigation and adaptation climate change strategies;
The UNFCCC and member states foster and create formal structures and mechanisms at
national and international scales that provide for the full and effective participation of indigenous peoples and local communities in climate change mitigation and adaptation mechanisms;
The UNFCCC establish a fund to support Indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ full and effective participation in all climate processes, including adaptation, mitigation, monitoring and transfer of appropriate technologies in order to provide funding for the, capacity-building, education, knowledge sharing, and skills transfer needed for such participation; and
The UNFCCC and member states recognize and support Indigenous peoples’ and local
communities’ own sustainable development process.
2 Decision number FCCC/SBSTA/2008/L.23, Annex, 1(c) in COP 14, Poznan
3 Art. 26, 1 UNDRIP
Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group climate change/biodiversity / Cape Town
Estimados
Participe en una reunion del "Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on climate change/biodiversity" para elaborar el documento final de los efectos del cambio climatico en la biodiversidad. Tambien se incluyeron temas respecto a los efectos que las decisiones podrian tener en la biodiversidad.
Se incluyo la perspectiva indigena respecto a los efectos significativos en la cultura y esa "relacion especial con la tierra y el territorio". Si estan intersados de este material que sera distribuido en la COP15 de Copenhagen, favor revisar el siguiente link http://www.cbd.int/climate/ Si quieren informacion especifica favor comunicarse a mi correo johnson.cerda@gmail.com
Saludos
Participe en una reunion del "Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on climate change/biodiversity" para elaborar el documento final de los efectos del cambio climatico en la biodiversidad. Tambien se incluyeron temas respecto a los efectos que las decisiones podrian tener en la biodiversidad.
Se incluyo la perspectiva indigena respecto a los efectos significativos en la cultura y esa "relacion especial con la tierra y el territorio". Si estan intersados de este material que sera distribuido en la COP15 de Copenhagen, favor revisar el siguiente link http://www.cbd.int/climate/ Si quieren informacion especifica favor comunicarse a mi correo johnson.cerda@gmail.com
Saludos
jueves, 7 de mayo de 2009
The Anchorage Declaration
The Anchorage Declaration
24 April 2009
From 20-24 April, 2009, Indigenous representatives from the Arctic, North America,
Asia, Pacific, Latin America, Africa, Caribbean and Russia met in Anchorage, Alaska for the Indigenous Peoples’ Global Summit on Climate Change. We thank the Ahtna and the Dena’ina Athabascan Peoples in whose lands we gathered.
We express our solidarity as Indigenous Peoples living in areas that are the most
vulnerable to the impacts and root causes of climate change. We reaffirm the unbreakable and sacred connection between land, air, water, oceans, forests, sea ice, plants, animals and our human communities as the material and spiritual basis for our existence.
We are deeply alarmed by the accelerating climate devastation brought about by
unsustainable development. We are experiencing profound and disproportionate adverse
impacts on our cultures, human and environmental health, human rights, well-being,
traditional livelihoods, food systems and food sovereignty, local infrastructure, economic viability, and our very survival as Indigenous Peoples.
Mother Earth is no longer in a period of climate change, but in climate crisis. We
therefore insist on an immediate end to the destruction and desecration of the elements of life.
Through our knowledge, spirituality, sciences, practices, experiences and relationships with our traditional lands, territories, waters, air, forests, oceans, sea ice, other natural resources and all life, Indigenous Peoples have a vital role in defending and healing Mother Earth. The future of Indigenous Peoples lies in the wisdom of our elders, the restoration of the sacred position of women, the youth of today and in the generations of tomorrow.
We uphold that the inherent rights of Indigenous Peoples, affirmed by the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), must be fully respected in all decision-making processes and activities related to climate change. This includes our rights to our lands, territories, environment and natural resources as contained in Articles 25–30 of the UNDRIP. When specific programs and projects affect them, the right to Self Determination of Indigenous Peoples must be respected, emphasizing our right to Free Prior and Informed Consent including the right to say “no”. United Nations Framework Convention on Climate (UNFCCC) agreements and principles must reflect the spirit of the UNDRIP.
Calls for Action
1. In order to achieve the fundamental objective of the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), we call upon the fifteenth meeting of the
Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC to support a binding emissions reduction target for developed countries (Annex 1) of at least 45% below 1990 levels by 2020 and at least 95% by 2050. In recognizing the root causes of climate change, participants call upon states to work towards decreasing dependency on fossil fuels.
We further call for a just transition to decentralized renewable energy economies, sources and systems owned and controlled by our local communities to achieve energy security and sovereignty. In addition, the Summit participants agreed to present two options for action which were each supported by one or more of the participating regional caucuses. These were as follows:
A. We call on the phase out of fossil fuel development and a moratorium on new
fossil fuel developments on or near Indigenous lands and territories.
B. We call for a process that works towards the eventual phase out of fossil fuels,
without infringing on the right to development of Indigenous nations.
2. We call upon the Parties to the UNFCCC to recognize the importance of our
Traditional Knowledge and practices shared by Indigenous Peoples in developing
strategies to address climate change. To address climate change we also call on the
UNFCCC to recognize the historical and ecological debt of the Annex 1 countries in
contributing to greenhouse gas emissions. We call on these countries to pay this historical debt.
3. We call on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Millennium
Ecosystem Assessment, and other relevant institutions to support Indigenous Peoples in carrying out Indigenous Peoples’ climate change assessments.
4. We call upon the UNFCCC’s decision-making bodies to establish formal structures
and mechanisms for and with the full and effective participation of Indigenous Peoples.
Specifically we recommend that the UNFCCC:
a. Organize regular Technical Briefings by Indigenous Peoples on Traditional
Knowledge and climate change;
b. Recognize and engage the International Indigenous Peoples’ Forum on Climate
Change and its regional focal points in an advisory role;
c. Immediately establish an Indigenous focal point in the secretariat of the UNFCCC;
d. Appoint Indigenous Peoples’ representatives in UNFCCC funding mechanisms in
consultation with Indigenous Peoples;
e. Take the necessary measures to ensure the full and effective participation of
Indigenous and local communities in formulating, implementing, and monitoring
activities, mitigation, and adaptation relating to impacts of climate change.
5. All initiatives under Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD)
must secure the recognition and implementation of the rights of Indigenous Peoples,
including security of land tenure, recognition of land title according to traditional ways, uses and customary laws and the multiple benefits of forests for climate, ecosystems, and peoples before taking any action.
6. We challenge States to abandon false solutions to climate change that negatively
impact Indigenous Peoples’ rights, lands, air, oceans, forests, territories and waters. These include nuclear energy, large-scale dams, geo-engineering techniques, “clean coal”, agro-fuels, plantations, and market based mechanisms such as carbon trading, the Clean Development Mechanism, and forest offsets. The rights of Indigenous Peoples to protect our forests and forest livelihoods must be ensured.
7. We call for adequate and direct funding in developed and developing States and for a fund to be created to enable Indigenous Peoples’ full and effective participation in all climate processes, including adaptation, mitigation, monitoring and transfer of appropriate technologies in order to foster our empowerment, capacity-building, and education. We strongly urge relevant United Nations bodies to facilitate and fund the participation, education, and capacity building of Indigenous youth and women to ensure engagement in all international and national processes related to climate change.
8. We call on financial institutions to provide risk insurance for Indigenous Peoples to allow them to recover from extreme weather events.
9. We call upon all United Nations agencies to address climate change impacts in their strategies and action plans, in particular their impacts on Indigenous Peoples, including the World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII). In particular, we call upon all the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and other relevant United Nations bodies to establish an Indigenous Peoples’ working group to address the impacts of climate change on food security and food sovereignty for Indigenous Peoples.
10. We call on United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to conduct a fast track
assessment of short-term drivers of climate change, specifically black carbon, with a view to initiating negotiation of an international agreement to reduce emission of black carbon.
11. We call on States to recognize and implement the fundamental human rights and
status of Indigenous Peoples, including the collective rights to traditional ownership, use,access, occupancy and title to traditional lands, air, forests, waters, oceans, sea ice and sacred sites as well as the rights affirmed in Treaties are upheld and recognized in land use planning and climate change mitigation strategies. In particular, States must ensure that Indigenous Peoples have the right to mobility and are not forcibly removed or settled away from their traditional lands and territories, and that the rights of peoples in voluntary isolation are upheld. In the case of climate change migrants, appropriate programs and measures must address their rights and vulnerabilities.
12. We call upon states to return and restore lands, territories, waters, forests, oceans, sea ice and sacred sites that have been taken from Indigenous Peoples, limiting our access to our traditional ways of living, thereby causing us to misuse and expose our lands to activities and conditions that contribute to climate change.
13. In order to provide the resources necessary for our collective survival in response to the climate crisis, we declare our communities, waters, air, forests, oceans, sea ice, traditional lands and territories to be “Food Sovereignty Areas,” defined and directed by Indigenous Peoples according to customary laws, free from extractive industries, deforestation and chemical-based industrial food production systems (i.e. contaminants, agro-fuels, genetically modified organisms).
14. We encourage our communities to exchange information while ensuring the
protection and respect of intellectual property rights at the local, national and
international levels pertaining to our Traditional Knowledge, innovations, and practices. These include knowledge and use of land, water and sea ice, traditional agriculture, forest management, ancestral seeds, pastoralism, food plants, animals and medicines and are essential in developing climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies, restoring our food sovereignty and food independence, and strengthening our Indigenous families and nations.
We offer to share with humanity our Traditional Knowledge, innovations, and
practices relevant to climate change, provided our fundamental rights as
intergenerational guardians of this knowledge are fully recognized and respected.
We reiterate the urgent need for collective action.
Agreed by consensus of the participants in the Indigenous Peoples’ Global Summit on
Climate Change, Anchorage Alaska, April 24th 2009
24 April 2009
From 20-24 April, 2009, Indigenous representatives from the Arctic, North America,
Asia, Pacific, Latin America, Africa, Caribbean and Russia met in Anchorage, Alaska for the Indigenous Peoples’ Global Summit on Climate Change. We thank the Ahtna and the Dena’ina Athabascan Peoples in whose lands we gathered.
We express our solidarity as Indigenous Peoples living in areas that are the most
vulnerable to the impacts and root causes of climate change. We reaffirm the unbreakable and sacred connection between land, air, water, oceans, forests, sea ice, plants, animals and our human communities as the material and spiritual basis for our existence.
We are deeply alarmed by the accelerating climate devastation brought about by
unsustainable development. We are experiencing profound and disproportionate adverse
impacts on our cultures, human and environmental health, human rights, well-being,
traditional livelihoods, food systems and food sovereignty, local infrastructure, economic viability, and our very survival as Indigenous Peoples.
Mother Earth is no longer in a period of climate change, but in climate crisis. We
therefore insist on an immediate end to the destruction and desecration of the elements of life.
Through our knowledge, spirituality, sciences, practices, experiences and relationships with our traditional lands, territories, waters, air, forests, oceans, sea ice, other natural resources and all life, Indigenous Peoples have a vital role in defending and healing Mother Earth. The future of Indigenous Peoples lies in the wisdom of our elders, the restoration of the sacred position of women, the youth of today and in the generations of tomorrow.
We uphold that the inherent rights of Indigenous Peoples, affirmed by the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), must be fully respected in all decision-making processes and activities related to climate change. This includes our rights to our lands, territories, environment and natural resources as contained in Articles 25–30 of the UNDRIP. When specific programs and projects affect them, the right to Self Determination of Indigenous Peoples must be respected, emphasizing our right to Free Prior and Informed Consent including the right to say “no”. United Nations Framework Convention on Climate (UNFCCC) agreements and principles must reflect the spirit of the UNDRIP.
Calls for Action
1. In order to achieve the fundamental objective of the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), we call upon the fifteenth meeting of the
Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC to support a binding emissions reduction target for developed countries (Annex 1) of at least 45% below 1990 levels by 2020 and at least 95% by 2050. In recognizing the root causes of climate change, participants call upon states to work towards decreasing dependency on fossil fuels.
We further call for a just transition to decentralized renewable energy economies, sources and systems owned and controlled by our local communities to achieve energy security and sovereignty. In addition, the Summit participants agreed to present two options for action which were each supported by one or more of the participating regional caucuses. These were as follows:
A. We call on the phase out of fossil fuel development and a moratorium on new
fossil fuel developments on or near Indigenous lands and territories.
B. We call for a process that works towards the eventual phase out of fossil fuels,
without infringing on the right to development of Indigenous nations.
2. We call upon the Parties to the UNFCCC to recognize the importance of our
Traditional Knowledge and practices shared by Indigenous Peoples in developing
strategies to address climate change. To address climate change we also call on the
UNFCCC to recognize the historical and ecological debt of the Annex 1 countries in
contributing to greenhouse gas emissions. We call on these countries to pay this historical debt.
3. We call on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Millennium
Ecosystem Assessment, and other relevant institutions to support Indigenous Peoples in carrying out Indigenous Peoples’ climate change assessments.
4. We call upon the UNFCCC’s decision-making bodies to establish formal structures
and mechanisms for and with the full and effective participation of Indigenous Peoples.
Specifically we recommend that the UNFCCC:
a. Organize regular Technical Briefings by Indigenous Peoples on Traditional
Knowledge and climate change;
b. Recognize and engage the International Indigenous Peoples’ Forum on Climate
Change and its regional focal points in an advisory role;
c. Immediately establish an Indigenous focal point in the secretariat of the UNFCCC;
d. Appoint Indigenous Peoples’ representatives in UNFCCC funding mechanisms in
consultation with Indigenous Peoples;
e. Take the necessary measures to ensure the full and effective participation of
Indigenous and local communities in formulating, implementing, and monitoring
activities, mitigation, and adaptation relating to impacts of climate change.
5. All initiatives under Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD)
must secure the recognition and implementation of the rights of Indigenous Peoples,
including security of land tenure, recognition of land title according to traditional ways, uses and customary laws and the multiple benefits of forests for climate, ecosystems, and peoples before taking any action.
6. We challenge States to abandon false solutions to climate change that negatively
impact Indigenous Peoples’ rights, lands, air, oceans, forests, territories and waters. These include nuclear energy, large-scale dams, geo-engineering techniques, “clean coal”, agro-fuels, plantations, and market based mechanisms such as carbon trading, the Clean Development Mechanism, and forest offsets. The rights of Indigenous Peoples to protect our forests and forest livelihoods must be ensured.
7. We call for adequate and direct funding in developed and developing States and for a fund to be created to enable Indigenous Peoples’ full and effective participation in all climate processes, including adaptation, mitigation, monitoring and transfer of appropriate technologies in order to foster our empowerment, capacity-building, and education. We strongly urge relevant United Nations bodies to facilitate and fund the participation, education, and capacity building of Indigenous youth and women to ensure engagement in all international and national processes related to climate change.
8. We call on financial institutions to provide risk insurance for Indigenous Peoples to allow them to recover from extreme weather events.
9. We call upon all United Nations agencies to address climate change impacts in their strategies and action plans, in particular their impacts on Indigenous Peoples, including the World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII). In particular, we call upon all the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and other relevant United Nations bodies to establish an Indigenous Peoples’ working group to address the impacts of climate change on food security and food sovereignty for Indigenous Peoples.
10. We call on United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to conduct a fast track
assessment of short-term drivers of climate change, specifically black carbon, with a view to initiating negotiation of an international agreement to reduce emission of black carbon.
11. We call on States to recognize and implement the fundamental human rights and
status of Indigenous Peoples, including the collective rights to traditional ownership, use,access, occupancy and title to traditional lands, air, forests, waters, oceans, sea ice and sacred sites as well as the rights affirmed in Treaties are upheld and recognized in land use planning and climate change mitigation strategies. In particular, States must ensure that Indigenous Peoples have the right to mobility and are not forcibly removed or settled away from their traditional lands and territories, and that the rights of peoples in voluntary isolation are upheld. In the case of climate change migrants, appropriate programs and measures must address their rights and vulnerabilities.
12. We call upon states to return and restore lands, territories, waters, forests, oceans, sea ice and sacred sites that have been taken from Indigenous Peoples, limiting our access to our traditional ways of living, thereby causing us to misuse and expose our lands to activities and conditions that contribute to climate change.
13. In order to provide the resources necessary for our collective survival in response to the climate crisis, we declare our communities, waters, air, forests, oceans, sea ice, traditional lands and territories to be “Food Sovereignty Areas,” defined and directed by Indigenous Peoples according to customary laws, free from extractive industries, deforestation and chemical-based industrial food production systems (i.e. contaminants, agro-fuels, genetically modified organisms).
14. We encourage our communities to exchange information while ensuring the
protection and respect of intellectual property rights at the local, national and
international levels pertaining to our Traditional Knowledge, innovations, and practices. These include knowledge and use of land, water and sea ice, traditional agriculture, forest management, ancestral seeds, pastoralism, food plants, animals and medicines and are essential in developing climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies, restoring our food sovereignty and food independence, and strengthening our Indigenous families and nations.
We offer to share with humanity our Traditional Knowledge, innovations, and
practices relevant to climate change, provided our fundamental rights as
intergenerational guardians of this knowledge are fully recognized and respected.
We reiterate the urgent need for collective action.
Agreed by consensus of the participants in the Indigenous Peoples’ Global Summit on
Climate Change, Anchorage Alaska, April 24th 2009
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