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Rights struck from draft text on REDD

Posted on 9 December 200819 September 2017

Rights struck from draft text on REDDThe negotiations on REDD are heating up. After a week of mind-numbingly slow progress on REDD, the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand are now opposing the inclusion of references to the rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities in the COP14 decision text on REDD.

Needless to say, Indigenous Peoples, local communities and NGO representatives are outraged at this development.

INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, LOCAL COMMUNITIES AND NGOs OUTRAGED AT THE REMOVAL OF RIGHTS FROM UNFCCC DECISION ON REDD

We, the undersigned representatives of indigenous peoples, local communities and non-governmental organizations monitoring the progress of negotiations in Poznan are outraged that the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand opposed the inclusion of recognition of the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities in a decision on REDD (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) drafted today by government delegates at the UN Climate Conference.

These four countries (often known as the ‘CANZUS Group’) want to include REDD in the future climate agreement, but they oppose protecting the rights of the indigenous and forest peoples who will be directly affected by REDD measures. In discussions today, these countries insisted that the word “rights” and references to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples be struck from the text.

This is totally unacceptable for indigenous peoples, local communities and supporting NGOs, as the forests which are being targeted for REDD are those which indigenous peoples have sustained and protected for thousands of years. The rights of forests peoples to continue playing this role and being rewarded for doing so has to be recognized by the UNFCCC Parties. Any REDD mechanism that does not respect and protect the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities will fail.

We therefore demand that an unequivocal reference to rights and to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples be reinserted into the Draft COP14 Decision text on REDD.

Poznan, December 9, 2008

Signed by

The Accra Caucus on Forests and Climate Change, comprised of more than 30 civil society organizations from three tropical continents
Accion Ecologica
Friends of the Earth International
Indigenous Peoples’ Forum on Climate Change
Rainforest Foundation Norway
Rainforest Foundation UK
Tebtebba Foundation

 

2 thoughts on “Rights struck from draft text on REDD”

  1. Juanita says:
    9 December 2008 at 11:29 pm

    I am appalled as a Canadian citizen that my government is again involved in stripping indigenous peoples of their rights. It is especially hypocritical when our Prime Minister is expected to attend a ceremony to turn the sod in Winnipeg this month at the future sight of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.

  2. Judith Mayer, Coordinator, The Borneo Project says:
    11 December 2008 at 10:09 am

    The Borneo Project, a US-based organization supporting environmental conservation and the rights of Borneo’s indigenous peoples and local communities, would like to add our organization’s support as a signatory to this letter on “Indigenous Peoples, Local Communities and NGOs outraged at the removal of Rights from UNFCCC decision on REDD”

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