Thread by @kundan_kumarkun, @RightsResources Plenary Presentation for #FLARETC20 “Commons Solutions: Climate, Biodiversity, Resilient Livelihoods and [...]

@RightsResources Plenary Presentation for #FLARETC20 “Commons Solutions: Climate, Biodiversity, Resilient Livelihoods and Collective Community Rights” makes the case for IPs and Local Communities Rights and Governance https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/28/trust-our-expertise-or-face-catastrophe-amazon-peoples-warn-on-environment-aoe

Trust our expertise or face catastrophe, Amazon peoples warn on environment

Indigenous leader urges focus on native knowledge as study shows rainforest areas under tribal stewardship manage carbon better

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/28/trust-our-expertise-or-face-catastrophe-amazon-peoples-warn-on-environment-aoe

Recognizing and enforcing customary collective rights of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs) is an #inclusive and core solution to mitigating #ClimateChange, addressing the #biodiversity crises and creating resilient #livelihoods #FLARETC20 https://bit.ly/31OpiYG

Investing in indigenous communities is most efficient way to protect forests, report finds

The best way to save forests and curb biodiversity loss is to recognize the claims of indigenous peoples to their territories, a new report urges. Published by the Rights and Resources Initiative...

https://bit.ly/31OpiYG

@RightsResources found that half of the area in 42 countries are #collective #territories of #IPLCs. Often, these rights are not formally recognized: eg. in south Asia, rights over only 5% of such lands are recognized!
https://bit.ly/3mrKETB #FLARETC20

Estimate of the area of land and territories of Indigenous Peoples, local communities, and Afro-d...

The global urgency to both document and secure Indigenous Peoples’, local communities’, and Afro-descendants’ customary rights cannot be overestimated. Research shows that legally recognized commun...

https://bit.ly/3mrKETB

Increasing evidence exists that IPLCs can effectively protect forests, other important ecosystems and biodiversity, specially when their rights and jurisdiction over their territories are respected
#LBO2: http://lbo2.localbiodiversityoutlooks.net
#FLARETC20

@rightsandresources estimates that more than 293 billion Metric Tons of Carbon are stored in the collective forest lands of #IPLCs across the world; and can be protected effectively through recognizing their rights and governance.
https://bit.ly/31NwuV5
#FLARETC20

294 million people live on tropical forest restoration priority landscapes identified under the #BonnChallenge. Recognizing their rights will empower them to restore these forests. FLR which doesn’t respect their rights will cause conflicts
#FLARETC20 https://twitter.com/SorengArchana/status/1321122066297507842

https://twitter.com/SorengArchana/status/1321122066297507842

#Globaldealfornature !! Whose #halfearth, whose home?
Forthcoming @RightsResources research finds over 1.8 billion people live in important biodiversity areas needed to be conserved to prevent the collapse of #biodiversity
#ConSocSci
#FLARETC20
#NewDealForNature?

Recognising the rights of IPLCs inhabiting important biodiversity Conservation landscapes and supporting their leadership to conserve biodiversity is the most cost effective, just and sustainable pathway for meeting biodiversity targets
#FLARETC20 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-conservation-efforts-can-learn-from-indigenous-communities/

What Conservation Efforts Can Learn from Indigenous Communities

A major U.N.-backed report says that nature on indigenous peoples’ lands is degrading less quickly than in other areas

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-conservation-efforts-can-learn-from-indigenous-communities/

#IPLC Rights for #SustainableDevelopment:
Increasing evidence shows that rights recognition and governance of commons contributes substantially to improved incomes, livelihoods, sustainable development and empowerment of marginalised #IPLCs
https://bit.ly/3mGL88H
#FLARETC20

Opportunities for #Rightsrecognition
RRI has identified opportunities for scaling up rights recognition in selected countries by assessing the adequacy of legal frameworks, political will and the capacities of governments, CSOs and IPLCs
https://bit.ly/35Hcdla
#FLARETC20

Rights Based Transformation: This presentation is a call to #FLARE and academia to create the evidence to strengthen IPLCs in their struggle for effective rights recognition and governance over their lands and territories
#FLARETC20 @RightsResources

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