[E-rundbrief] Info 664 - Indigene und Klimakonferenz Bali

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E-Rundbrief - Info 664 - Terima Kasih: Indigenous Peoples On Climate
Change, Bali. Statement of the International Forum of Indigenous Peoples
On Climate Change at The High Level Segment of the 13th Conference of
the Parties and the 3rd Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol of
the UN Framework Convention On Climate Change, Bali, Indonesia; Orin
Langelle, Global Justice Ecology Project (GJEP): Indigenous Peoples shut
out of Climate Change Negotiations.

Bad Ischl, 11.3.2008

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Final Statement - Indigenous Peoples On Climate Change Bali

Written by Terima Kasih

Statement of the International Forum of Indigenous Peoples On Climate
Change at The High Level Segment of the 13th Conference of the Parties
and the 3rd Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol of the UN
Framework Convention On Climate Change, Bali, Indonesia

December 14, 2007

Thank you, Mr. President Chair and delegates

On behalf of the International Forum of Indigenous Peoples on Climate
Change (IFIPCC), I would like to draw your attention to the fact that
more than 80% of the world's biodiversity and most of the forests are
found within our territories.  Indigenous peoples also represent some
350 million individuals in the world and make up 90% of the world's
cultural diversity. Yet, we are suffering the worst impacts of climate
change without having contributed to its creation as clearly evident in
many parts of the Indigenous Peoples lands and which threatens our very
survival.

We, Indigenous Peoples, have addressed our concerns to the UNFCCC
Conference of the Parties since SBSTA 13 in Lyon, France, 2000. However,
despite years of experience and efforts to participate in this process,
and despite also the resounding support and approval this year of the
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, we are
profoundly disappointed that, even as the United Nations' Second
International Decade of Indigenous Peoples begins, states are still
ignoring our demands and contributions and we have even been shut out of
this Bali process.

This is unacceptable.

Mr. President, the IFIPCC takes this opportunity to again reaffirm the
following:

a.    We demand the creation of an Expert Group on Climate Change and
Indigenous Peoples with the full participation and representation of
Indigenous Peoples, taking into account the example of  the United
Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) that includes
indigenous experts;

b.    We demand the creation of a voluntary fund for the full and
meaningful participation of Indigenous Peoples, such as that which
exists in the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD);

c.    We demand that the Conference of the Parties recognize and take
action to curb the adverse impacts of climate change on indigenous
peoples; and to refrain from adaptation and mitigation schemes and
projects promoted as solutions to climate change that devastate
Indigenous Peoples' lands and territories and cause more human rights
violations, like market based mechanisms, carbon trading, agrofuels and
especially avoided deforestation (REDD). All adaptation and mitigation
plans affecting Indigenous communities must follow the principles of
free prior and informed consent of Indigenous communities, especially
those mostly impacted.

d.    We demand full and effective participation of Indigenous Peoples
in all levels of planning, decision making and implementation of the
Nairobi Five Year Programs of Work, including the SBI and SBSTA programs
and that a human rights-based approach be used in this work and to
engage the UN Human Rights Council to monitor the impacts of climate
change mitigation and adaptation on Indigenous Peoples.

e.    We demand that any financial mechanism agreed to here by the
COP/MOP must be easily accessible to, and allow direct access by
Indigenous Peoples noting that the Adaptation Fund is fully funded
through CDM projects which cause disastrous impacts on Indigenous
Peoples lands, territories, and resources, as well as violating their
rights in ways that have ended up costing many Indigenous Peoples lives,
and force them from their lands.

f.    We request the UNFCCC to submit its reports to the 7th Session of
the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) in April 2008 as
the main theme of this session is on climate change and Indigenous Peoples.

Mr. President, the IFIPCC sincerely believes that Indigenous Peoples
have a role to play in this convention and the Protocol. It is time that
we all co-operate in our efforts to address climate change in a manner
that recognizes social justice, environmental integrity, indigenous and
other human rights.

TERIMA KASIH!

http://vanuatunews.com/frontpage/content/view/586/298/

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Indigenous Peoples shut out of Climate Change Negotiations

Orin Langelle, Global Justice Ecology Project (GJEP)

www.globaljusticeecology.org

Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia- Indigenous peoples representing regions from
around the world protested outside the climate negotiations today
wearing symbolic gags that read UNFCCC, the acronym of the United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, symbolizing their
systematic exclusion from the UN meeting.

Yesterday a delegation of indigenous peoples was forcibly barred from
entering the meeting between UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer and
civil society representatives, despite the fact that the indigenous
delegation was invited to attend.  This act is representative of the
systematic exclusion of indigenous peoples in the UNFCCC process.

  "There is no seat or name plate for indigenous peoples in the plenary,
nor for the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, the
highest level body in the United Nations that addresses indigenous
peoples rights," stated Hubertus Samangun, the Focal Point of the
Indigenous Peoples delegation to the UNFCCC and the Focal Point for
English Speaking Indigenous Peoples of the Global Forest Coalition.

"Indigenous peoples are not only marginalized from the discussion, but
there is virtually no mention of indigenous peoples in the more that 5
million words of UNFCCC documents," argued Alfred Ilenre of the Edo
People of Nigeria.

This is occurring despite the fact that indigenous peoples are suffering
the most from climate change and climate change mitigation projects that
directly impact their lands.

Indigenous peoples are here in Bali to denounce the false solutions to
climate change proposed by the United Nations such as carbon trading,
agrofuels and so-called "avoided deforestation" that devastate their
lands and cause human rights violations.

"This process has become nothing but developed countries avoiding their
responsibilities to cut emissions and pushing the responsibility onto
developing countries," stated Fiu Mata'ese Elisara-Laula, of the O Le
Siosiomaga Society of Samoa.  "Projects like REDD (Reducing Emissions
from Deforestation in Developing countries) sound very nice but they are
trashing our indigenous lands.  People are being relocated and even
killed; my own people will soon be under water.  That's why I call the
money from the projects blood money," he added.

Marcial Arias of the Kuna People of Panama reminded the international
community that indigenous peoples' right to participate was recognized
in the Earth Summit in 1992 and reaffirmed this year. "On September 13th
of this year, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the UN
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples [1] which enshrines the
fundamental human rights of indigenous peoples to their lands,
territories and environment. It is precisely these rights recognized by
the UN itself that the UNFCCC is violating," he explained.

http://vanuatunews.com/frontpage/content/view/577/301/

Siehe auch Infos 611, 624, 631, 641, 656, 662


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