Fwd: Update: Conservation and Indigenous Peoples' Rights
Abdon Nababan
From: <pr...@aippnet.org>Date: September 15, 2016 12:26:57 PM GMT+07:00To: "'climate-change-monitoring-and-...@googlegroups.com.'", <climate-change-monitorin...@googlegroups.com>Subject: Update: Conservation and Indigenous Peoples' Rights
1. Global Youth Video Competition on Climate Change
As part of an exciting global youth video competition, young people from around the world have been asked to say how they are shaping a more sustainable future in short and exciting videos.
The competition videos are now ready to view, and we’d like to ask YOU to help us select the winners!
The stories range from a project to generate solar energy in Lebanon, to creating rain water systems in Venezuela and climate “boot camps” in Uganda.
A total of over 180 entrants from 77 countries submitted short video reports on their personal climate actions and activities to raise public awareness, of which 40 have been short-listed. Click here to read more.
2. UN Environment seeking a prominent personality to lead the Convention of Biological Diversity
The UN Environment programme has recently launched the process to appoint a new Executive Secretary to the Convention of Biological Diversity, to succeed Braulio Dias, who comes to the end of his mandate in February 2017.
The Convention on Biological Diversity came into force in 1993. It has set out a shared long term target: to end the loss of biodiversity and enhance the benefits it provides to people by 2020. The Convention is the key international instrument to address the increasing deterioration of habitats of all types, including forests, grasslands, wetlands and river systems, which continue to be fragmented and degraded; and to tackle a multitude of anthropogenic factors that are leading to continued loss of biodiversity. Click here to read more.
3. Contributions of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) towards achieving the Strategic Plan of Biodiversity (2011-2020) and the Aichi biodiversity targets
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is committed to supporting Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in their efforts to achieving the Strategic Plan of Biodiversity (2011-2020) and the Aichi biodiversity targets. With more than one hundred projects spread across more than one hundred and twenty countries, UNEP’s contribution to the CBD, specifically in achieving the twenty Aichi targets, is the key focus of this report for information and consideration by the Parties to the CBD as well as the Member States of UNEP. Click here to read more.
4. Establishing a world with more just and secure access to land and natural resources
The Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) supports the developing world’s Indigenous Peoples and local communities in forests and other rural areas, helping them to secure and realize the rights to own, control, and benefit from the natural resources they have depended on for generations.
We work together with community organizations, civil society, governments, international institutions, and the private sector to promote and accelerate global efforts to improve local livelihoods, reform forest tenure and governance, combat poverty, mitigate the effects of climate change, and deliver sustainable development. Click here to read more.
5. Our Land. Our Rights. Our Life. - Land Rights Now at Terra Madre Salone del Gusto 2016
From September 22 to 26, Terra Madre Salone del Gusto 2016 will dedicate an area in Turin’s Valentino Park to the Indigenous Terra Madre Network – a themed space dedicated to the stories, pressing issues and traditions of indigenous peoples. The space will provide indigenous communities with a platform to discuss the right to food sovereignty and the defense of biocultural diversity as priorities for their future and for the future of the planet. It will offer a daily program of panels and workshops in which representatives from the Indigenous Terra Madre Network will be on hand to talk about their experiences in relation to land, food production, food sovereignty, gender, climate change, wellbeing and happiness. Click here to read more.
6. Why Forests are Key to Climate, Water, Health, and Livelihoods
March 21, the International Day of Forests, is an opportunity to highlight the central role forests play in ecology and climate change, and the significant economic, social and health benefits that forests can provide. Click here to read more.
7. This IIT professor who once taught Raghuram Rajan is now working for tribals
A degree in engineering from IIT Delhi, a Masters degree, and a PhD from Houston were just stepping stones for Alok Sagar, an ex-IIT professor. Alok has been living for 32 years in the remote tribal villages of Madhya Pradesh, and serving the people living there. Click here to read more.
8. India: New film about Adivasis and extractive industries
The documentary is called “The Expendable People”. It aims at making visible the struggles of Adivasi peoples and their efforts to make their rights recognized and implemented against the continuous dispossession of their lands and criminalization of Adivasi activists. Click here to read more.
9. IUCN Congress boosts support for Indigenous peoples’ rights
Key decisions boosting support for Indigenous peoples’ rights have been adopted by IUCN State, government and civil society members today at the IUCN World Conservation Congress taking place in Hawaiʻi. Please, click here to read more
10. The Hawaiʻi Commitments
Over ten thousand leaders from government, civil society, indigenous communities, faith and spiritual traditions, the private sector, and academia gathered in an historically important meeting in Hawai’i, from the 1st to the 10th of September, 2016. The theme of this IUCN World Conservation Congress was ‘Planet at the Crossroads’ to reflect the serious choices and actions the world needs to make to reverse environmental declines and secure a healthy, livable planet. Please, click here to read more.
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Thank you
With Best Regards
Prem Singh Tharu
Environment Programme
Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP)
108 Moo 5 Tamboon Sanpranate Amphur Sansai, Chiang Mai 50210, Thailand
Tel: +66 5338 0168
Fax: +66 5338 0752
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